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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
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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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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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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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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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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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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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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Life is too short to be miserable.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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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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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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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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