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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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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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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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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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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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