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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."
— Rita Mae Brown
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"When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began."
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"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. "
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
— Rita Mae Brown (Alma Mater)
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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."
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"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."
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"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
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"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
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"Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds."
— Rita Mae Brown (Riding Shotgun)
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"Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed."
— Rita Mae Brown (Riding Shotgun)
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"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. "
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"Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard."
— Rita Mae Brown (Riding Shotgun)
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"Writers will happen in the best of families."
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"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. "
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"About all you can do in life is be who you are."
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"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle. "
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"When God made man she was practicing."
— Rita Mae Brown (Cat on the Scent)
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"It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad."
— Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle)
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"Don't hope more than you're willing to work."
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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."
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"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides."
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"Normal is the average of deviance."
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"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. "
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

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"Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . ."
— Rita Mae Brown (Alma Mater)
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"Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places."
— Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle)
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"When I got my library card, that's when my life began."
— Rita Mae Brown
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"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides."
— Rita Mae Brown
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"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."
— Rita Mae Brown
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"When I got my library card, that was when my life began."
— Rita Mae Brown
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In Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, who is the first person Molly falls in love with?
a. her sixth grade classmate, Leota B. Bisland
b. her (adopted) cousin Leroy
c. Her best friend, the head cheerleader, Carolyn Simpson
d. Carolyn's boyfriend Larry
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