Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.