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Political elections are not life and death.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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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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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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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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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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