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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
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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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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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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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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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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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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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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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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