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I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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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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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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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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compromise is the work of mature people.
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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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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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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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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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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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