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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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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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When God made man she was practicing.
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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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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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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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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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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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