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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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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 believe in art that conceals art.
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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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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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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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