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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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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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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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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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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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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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