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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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More quotes by Rita Mae Brown
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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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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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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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
Rita Mae Brown
In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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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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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Rita Mae Brown
People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
Rita Mae Brown
