Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
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If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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Pain isn't always the enemy.
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Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
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People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.