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Never hope for it more than you work for it.

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
Screenwriter
Writer
Hope
Work
Never

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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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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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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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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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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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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 believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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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.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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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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