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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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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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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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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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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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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 underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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