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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 believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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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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Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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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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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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