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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
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Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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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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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 believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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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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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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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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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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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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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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