Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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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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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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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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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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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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.
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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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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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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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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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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.