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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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