Mae Quotes

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ~ Rita Mae Brown

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me. ~ Mae West

Man, you're a regular Bonnie Parker."
"A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up."
Jesse found that hysterical. "Did Willie say that?"
"Nope, Mae West. Now, how do I get on this thing in a skirt? ~ Ruta Sepetys

She chose books because they never left her lonely the way that Kirk had left her lonely. BEcause company was often nothing of the kind, whereas a good book always was.
She chose books for the smell of fresh-pressed pages, for the yellow-brown musk of library mould, but always for the breathy kiss of paper rustling. She chose books because some of the held prose that made her weep, or poetry that winded her, and words that mae her heart skip beats.
She chose books because some came readey-made with characters that seemed like perfect versions of hrself, all of them little proofs that somehow, somewhere, it might just be possible for her to be better: to be popular, powerful, sexy and smart.
She chose books because they lied to her with more conviction than people ever had. ~ Dan Micklethwaite

The narcissist, cut off from her spirituality, is one who spends unquantifiable energy supporting and maintaining and utterly and completely fake self, in denial of one's true self, trading it for glamour to compensate for a core of being that is simply wracked,a deep dark cold void; using and abusing others to maintain and sustain the false state. this fake self is contrived in absentia from the connectivity that even the most unaware take for granted. The narcissist doesn't see other human beings. ~ Stacey Scott Mae

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. ~ Rita Mae Brown

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

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em. ~ Mae West

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

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it. ~ Mae Jemison

Some people live life and others talk about it. ~ Rita Mae Brown

He never forgot about you, Mae. Growing up, I watched him sign to Ky about you all the time, his chick with the wolf eyes. The chick behind the fence, the chick he kissed. It was constant. His precious number three, whatever he meant. ~ Tillie Cole

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. ~ Mae West

the further humans move from nature, the crazier they get. In ~ Rita Mae Brown

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life. ~ Mae Whitman

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage. ~ Rita Mae Brown

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air. ~ Mae West

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship with music, sometimes it needs all three and become a video projection. ~ Carrie Mae Weems

Powerful words, a soft embrace, & facial expression that can warm your heart. Growth shows you to appreciate what you didn't before. ~ April Mae Monterrosa

There's 3 sides to every story. Time will tell who the real asshole is despite what you were told. ~ April Mae Monterrosa

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

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way. ~ Mae West

Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity. ~ Rita Mae Brown

What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times over. In fact, maybe I've never actually found God at all, but imagining that I have indeed found something so much larger and more beautiful than I can explain is more often enough for me. ~ Ashley Mae Hoiland

Life is better with a partner. ~ Melissa Mae Palmer

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. ~ Mae West

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying. ~ Mae West

Hmm," she hums after a moment.
"What?"
"Just thinking ... We both want you to get this role."
"No sh*t."
"And arguing obviously isn't helping us out."
I snort. "But that's what we do. ~ Cassie Mae

I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.' ~ Mae Whitman

If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a mess. Still be dead, though. ~ L.A. Meyer

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ~ William J. Clinton

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!' ~ Mae Whitman

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

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to. ~ Rita Mae Brown

I've been things and I've seen places. ~ Mae West

I was just, uh...looking at your bush. ~ Cassie Mae

Every Wolverine fan knows who that is. ~ Cassie Mae

I love my best friend's boyfriend. But I swear, I saw him first. ~ Cassie Mae

We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always ... ~ Shawna Mae Lewis

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. ~ Mae West

At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses. ~ Rita Mae Brown

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin. ~ Mae West

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act. ~ Rita Mae Brown

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. ~ Rita Mae Brown

I had never thought I had much in common with anybody. I had no mother, no father, no roots, no biological similarities called sisters and brothers. And for a future I didn't want a split-level home with a station wagon, pastel refrigerator, and a houseful of blonde children evenly spaced through the years. I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there. Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I'd rather be alone. ~ Rita Mae Brown

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

Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do! ~ Eartha Kitt

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. ~ Mae Jemison

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience. ~ Mae Jemison

Talking to her sister always made Rory feel grounded and real again, as if she'd been holding her breath without realizing it and could finally let it out, could really be herself for a few moments. Was this how real friendships felt? Or just family? CHAPTER ~ Lena Mae Hill

Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison. ~ David Sedaris

Merger Evers/John F. Kennedy/Malcolm X/Martin Luther King/Robert Kennedy/Che Guevara/Patrice Lamumba/George Jackson/Cynthia Wesley/Addie Mae Collins/Denise McNair/Carole Robertson/Viola Liuzzo
It was a decade marked by death. Violent and inevitable. Funerals became engraved on the brain, intensifying the ephemeral nature of life. For many in the South it was a decade reminiscent of earlier times, when oak trees sighed over their burdens in the wind; Spanish moss draggled blood to the ground; amen corners creaked with grief; and the thrill of being able, once again, to endure unendurable loss produced so profound an ecstasy in mourners that they strutted, without noticing their feet, along the thin backs of benches: their piercing shouts of anguish and joy never interrupted by an inglorious fall. They shared rituals for the dead to be remembered. ~ Alice Walker

When you stop giving attention to someone that takes you for granted, they will notice...trust! ~ April Mae Monterrosa

Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism ... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end. ~ Carrie Mae Weems

Music is about the performance. ~ Vanessa Mae

Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why? ~ Frank Herbert

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ~ Rita Mae Brown

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. ~ Mae West

After that we went sort of crazy," said Jesse, grinning at the memory. "Heck, we was going to live forever. Can you picture what it felt like to find that out?"
"But then we sat down and talked it over…" said Miles.
"We're still talking it over," Jesse added.
"And we figured it'd be very bad if everyone knowed about that spring," said Mae. "We begun to see what it would mean." She peered at Winnie. "Do you understand, child? That water--it stops you right where you are. If you'd had a drink of it today, you'd stay a little girl forever. You'd never grow up, not ever."
"We don't know how it works, or even why," said Miles.
"Pa thinks it's something left over from--well, from some other plan for the way the world should be," said Jesse. "Some plan that didn't work out too good. And so everything was changed. Except that the spring was passed over, somehow or other. Maybe he's right. I don't know. But you see, Winnie Foster, when I told you before I'm a hundred and four years old, I was telling the truth. But I'm really only seventeen. And, so far as I know, I'll stay seventeen till the end of the world. ~ Natalie Babbitt

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. ~ Mae West

I am against the planned political assassinations by our intelligence and defense agents.The CIA-FBI-DIA and DISC (Defense Industry Security Command) were set up originally to protect citizens of the USA. They became their own judges and juries, private servants of corporations with investments at home and abroad. I am against the constant destruction of evidence in criminal matters and political assassinations. Prime witnesses are murdered before or after testifying. Diaries are forged and planted in obvious places. Doubles are created to confuse. The Police Departments manipulate facts in cooperation with conspirators. I am outraged that our judicial system since 1947 has been patterned after Nazi Germany. Patsies are dead or locked away. The assassins walk the streets or leave the country - "home free". I am against using the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren, to cover up the assassination of President Kennedy. When the highest court is corrupt, there is no hope at local levels. ~ Mae Brussell

You're my world, Gracelyn Mae," he told me, moving in closer. [...] Jackson took my hands into his. "You're my faith. You're my hope. You're my true religion. I'm a better man because you exist. I'm me because of you. And if you'd allow it, I'd love to spend the rest of my life worshipping your heartbeats."
I held his hands in mine and moved in close. My head tilted up, and I released a small breath as my eyes locked with his. A small, tiny, breath. My mouth grazed across his, and I whisperedagainst his lips.
"Worship me, and I'll worship you. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times. ~ April Mae Monterrosa

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~ Mae West

Before this trip he was my best friend ... And now, well, do you realize how hot he is? I mean like wow. When did that happen?"
"Seventh grade after he got the braces off. ~ Cassie Mae

Look your best - who said love is blind? ~ Mae West

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. ~ Rita Mae Brown

He goes to start the car for me again, leaning so close his breath tickles my neck. My head goes fuzzy as I picture him closing the distance between our bodies, forgetting I'm supposed to be doing something. His lips form words, but I don't hear them. His scent is intoxicating, pulling me under. Holy crap! I'm going to pass out! ~ Cassie Mae

I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted. ~ Mae West

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. ~ Mae West

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

If your appraisal comes back too low - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That means you may have to pay a much higher rate. ~ Jean Chatzky

Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Sex is emotion in motion. ~ Mae West

Annabel was trying to hide her sword under her suit jacket without much success. People were staring ...
And then they weren't. There were no people, as if the whole town had forgotten as one that these streets and this square had ever existed. The deserted street they were racing down seemed darker than the busy street they had left, as if light was lost with memory, as if they were running into oblivion, and Mae didn't care as long as they got there in time. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder. ~ Rita Mae Brown

In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4 film specifically, and I love it. I love it because I know what it does, how it really responds to light. ~ Carrie Mae Weems

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ~ Mae West

But fathers are soft on daughters. Look how Dad favors Angela. He gave her ten times more. Because she reminded him of Mae West. He was always smiling at her boobs. He wasn't aware of it. Mother and I saw it. ~ Saul Bellow

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university. ~ Vanessa Mae

I escaped from an interview with that laboratory-loving doctor, Ag O. Nee, just barely by the shadow of my Nosey nose! ~ I.B. Nosey

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. ~ Mae West

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress? ~ Mae West

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 ... ~ Rita Mae Brown

Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end. ~ Nona Mae King

When a new kind of 'race trouble' broke out in 1912, Forsyth was a place that had already witnessed the rapid expulsion of an entire people, and many residents, like Charlie Harris, had heard firsthand accounts from relatives who'd taken part in the Cherokee removals. So whenever someone first suggested that blacks in the county should not only be punished for the murder of Mae Crow but driven out of the county forever, the white people of Forsyth knew in their bones that such a thing was possible. After all, many families owed their land and their livelihoods to exactly such a racial cleansing in the 1830s. ~ Patrick Phillips

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays. ~ Mae West

I want to meet him. Perhaps show him my gun collection."
I laugh, realizing my face still isn't dry as the chuckles send tears off the bottom of my chin. "You don't have a gun collection."
"My cutlery, then." He smiles, patting my leg. ~ Cassie Mae

It's just empty boxers. Empty. It's not like there's a penis hiding in them. ~ Cassie Mae

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe. ~ Mae Jemison

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard. ~ Rita Mae Brown

I wished I could get up in the morning and look at the day the way I used to when I was a child. I wished I could walk down the streets and not hear those constant, abrasive sounds from the mouths of the opposite sex. Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault. ~ Mae West

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

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt. ~ John Thune

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart.
Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook. ~ Mae West

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. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do. ~ Cassie Mae

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. ~ Mae West