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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.


Rita Mae Brown

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RITA HAYWORTH Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
RITA DOVE Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell m...
RITA ORA Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today&...
RITA HAYWORTH 'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They we...
RITA MORENO It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fun...
RITA DOVE I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.
RITA MORENO The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for th...
RITA COOLIDGE I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
RITA ORA My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our ...
RITA RUDNER