Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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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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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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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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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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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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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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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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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
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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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Gossip is irresponsible communication.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
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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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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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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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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
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Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.