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Love is the wild card of existence.

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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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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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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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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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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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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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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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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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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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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