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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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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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compromise is the work of mature people.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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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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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
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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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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown
