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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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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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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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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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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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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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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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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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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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