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compromise is the work of mature people.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
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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 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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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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