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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
Prosaist
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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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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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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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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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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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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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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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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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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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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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