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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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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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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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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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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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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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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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