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Familiarity breeds consent.

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
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Familiarity
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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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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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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