Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.
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 BrownMy lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
Rita Mae BrownClass is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
Rita Mae Brown