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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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