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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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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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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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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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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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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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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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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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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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