Rita Mae Brown Quotes
-
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.
-
Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
-
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
-
Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
-
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.
-
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
-
Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
-
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
-
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
-
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
-
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
-
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
-
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
-
I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
-
I believe in art that conceals art.
-
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
-
He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
-
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
-
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.