Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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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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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
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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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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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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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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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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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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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Gossip is irresponsible communication.
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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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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.
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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.
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Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
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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 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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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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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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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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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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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.