Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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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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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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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
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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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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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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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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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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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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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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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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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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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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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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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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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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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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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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.