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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: 79
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 don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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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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compromise is the work of mature people.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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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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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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