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Familiarity breeds consent.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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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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