all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
Rita Mae BrownI love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
Rita Mae BrownContent without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
Rita Mae BrownI became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
Rita Mae BrownOppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
Rita Mae BrownPlot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
Rita Mae Brown