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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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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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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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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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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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