Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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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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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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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.
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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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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the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.