Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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Class 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.
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
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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.
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.