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When God made man she was practicing.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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Feminism
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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 only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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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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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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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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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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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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