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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
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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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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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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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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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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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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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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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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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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