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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Rita Mae Brown
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.100418.8938@microsoft.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 10:04:18 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- Lines: 35
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- With the exception of the Gay Olympics quote, all of the following
- are from _Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual_,
- published by Bantam Books.
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- A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than
- no inspiration at all. - Rita Mae Brown
-
- As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting
- and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls. - Rita Mae Brown
-
- Confession is not necessarily communication. - Rita Mae Brown
-
- I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have
- courage. - Rita Mae Brown
-
- I ask you men...what are you so afraid of? If I am equal to you in
- power, does that diminish you? - Rita Mae Brown
-
- Morals are private. Decency is public. - Rita Mae Brown
-
- Novelty is not necessarily a virtue. - Rita Mae Brown
-
- Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or
- brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch.
- - Rita Mae Brown
-
- This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. 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 of the Gay Olympics, 1982
-
- 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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