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Rita Mae Brown

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Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist (born 1944)

United StatesWritersBorn 1944 · age 81
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Rita Mae Brown is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups.

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Rita Mae Brown
said · Jan 1998
Own words

I also think living in the country gives you faith.

Interview in OutSmart magazine (January 1998)

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Rita Mae Brown
said · 2001
Own words

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Alma Mater (2001), p. 108. - but not originally hers, see Misattributed below.

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Rita Mae Brown
said · 1993
Own words

Normal is the average of deviance.

Venus Envy (1993)

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Rita Mae Brown is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015. She is considered a significant Southern lesbian feminist poet and author and is associated with the women's liberation movement and women in print movement.

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United States
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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living
Dates
Born 1944 · age 81
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