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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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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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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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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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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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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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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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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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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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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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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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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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