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England is an aquarium, not a nation.

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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Poet
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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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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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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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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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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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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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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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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