Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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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.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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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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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
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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.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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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.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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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.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.