Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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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.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life 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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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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One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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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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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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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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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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It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
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friendship is love made bearable.
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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.