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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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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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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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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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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
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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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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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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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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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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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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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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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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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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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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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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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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