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Age
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Conformity & Nonconformity
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I think the reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Creativity
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Culture
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
-Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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Divorce
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Education
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Homosexuality
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I became a lesbian out of devout Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man and I gave them my share.
-Rita Mae Brown
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
-Rita Mae Brown, Speech, August 28, 1982
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Insanity
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
-Rita Mae Brown, Sudden Death ch. 4 (1983)
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Language
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
-Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch (1988)
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Learning
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Life
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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Love
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Love is the wild card of existence.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Memory
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Peace
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Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Pornography
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful...It's made for the losers.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Sanity
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Television
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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television.
-Rita Mae Brown
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World
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If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Books by and about Rita Mae Brown