Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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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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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
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I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
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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.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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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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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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Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
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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.
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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.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.