"Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth."
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Rita Mae Brown quotes (page 9 of 13)
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"sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time."
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"[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class."
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"Political elections are not life and death."
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"An army of lovers shall not fail."
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"I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance."
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"No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future."
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"Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind."
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"Never hope for it more than you work for it."
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"It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world."
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"Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful."
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"Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy."
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"Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon."
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"He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim."
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"Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist."
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"If you like my novels, I commend your good taste."
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"I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell."
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"England is an aquarium, not a nation."
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"I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying."
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"Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did."
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