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... I distrust manifest knowledge.

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
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Distrust
Manifest
Knowledge

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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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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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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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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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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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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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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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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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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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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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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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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
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