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England is an aquarium, not a nation.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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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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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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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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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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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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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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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 think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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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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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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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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