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Normal is the average of deviance.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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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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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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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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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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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Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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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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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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