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Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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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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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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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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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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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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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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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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