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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
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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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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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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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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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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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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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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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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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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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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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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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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