Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.

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.

Everybody gets married. It's something you have to do, like dying.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

Carrie, sitting there over your coffee cup in a wasteland of worn-out silver wedding rings, feeding yourself confections of motherhood like the display cakes in the bakery where you worked- all trimming over cardboard.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

I began to wonder if girls could marry girls, because I was sure I wanted to marry Leota and look in her green eyes forever. But I would only marry her if I didn't have to do the housework. I was certain of that. But if Leota really didn't want to do it either, I guessed I'd do it. I'd do anything for Leota.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Love is the wild card of existence.

Two wrongs don't make a right.
No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos ...

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Then you stay in that root cellar until Jesus comes back.

I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture ...

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are.

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

What would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill her all over again. How do they know dead people don't open their eyes and see? they don't know nothing about being dead.

All this overt heterosexuality amused me. If only they knew.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Plot 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.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

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

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

The gradations are infinite and the silliest mistake of all is to define people by their material possessions. It's even worse if people define themselves by money. When

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

You gay?"
"Oh, I wouldn't say I was gay. I'd just say I was enchanted."
"Me too.

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You can't be a doctor. Only boys can be doctors. Leroy's got to be the doctor."
"You're full of shit, Spiegelglass, Leroy's dumber than I am. I got to be doctor because I'm the smart one and being a girl don't matter."
"You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl."
I hauled off and belted her one.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

Full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

All wars are grotesque blasphemies against God's greatest gift: Life. Until

The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you who have wept in direct sunlight, who have hungered in invisible chains, tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail.

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal.
Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Tennis is physical chess.

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

Compromise is the work of mature people.