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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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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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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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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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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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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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 expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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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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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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