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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
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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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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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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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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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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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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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