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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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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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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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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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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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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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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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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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Life is too short to be miserable.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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 it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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