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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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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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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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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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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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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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