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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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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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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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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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