Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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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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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
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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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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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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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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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Pain isn't always the enemy.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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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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I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.
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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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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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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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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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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.
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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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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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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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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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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.