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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
Rita Mae Brown
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
Rita Mae Brown
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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
Rita Mae Brown
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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
Rita Mae Brown
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
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One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
Rita Mae Brown
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
Rita Mae Brown
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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Rita Mae Brown
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
Rita Mae Brown
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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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friendship is love made bearable.
Rita Mae Brown
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
Rita Mae Brown
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It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
Rita Mae Brown
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Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.
Rita Mae Brown
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The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
Rita Mae Brown
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Adjectives are the curse of America.
Rita Mae Brown
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
Rita Mae Brown
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When God made man she was practicing.
Rita Mae Brown
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
Rita Mae Brown
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
Rita Mae Brown
