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Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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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 believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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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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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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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'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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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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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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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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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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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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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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