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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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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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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Rita Mae Brown
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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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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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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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 believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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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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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown
To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
Rita Mae Brown
