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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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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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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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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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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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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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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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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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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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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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