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Some people live life and others talk about it.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
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Poet
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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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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...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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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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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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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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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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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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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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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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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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