Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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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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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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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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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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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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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.
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Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"