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All this overt heterosexuality amused me. If only they knew. — Rita Mae Brown

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food. — Rita Mae Brown

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out. — Rita Mae Brown

The reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate. — Rita Mae Brown

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell. — Rita Mae Brown

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over. — Rita Mae Brown

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have. — Rita Mae Brown

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of. — Rita Mae Brown

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act. — Rita Mae Brown

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone. — Rita Mae Brown

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings. — Rita Mae Brown

Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A — Rita Mae Brown

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls. — Rita Mae Brown

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know. — Rita Mae Brown

You have nothing to fear in life, not you, not anyone, because every bad thing you think can happen will- but not always in the form you imagine — Rita Mae Brown

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. — Rita Mae Brown

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!" — Rita Mae Brown

Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place. — Rita Mae Brown

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds. — Rita Mae Brown

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. — Rita Mae Brown

Piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way. — Rita Mae Brown

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave. — Rita Mae Brown

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. — Rita Mae Brown

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version. — Rita Mae Brown

Many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags. — Rita Mae Brown

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. — Rita Mae Brown

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. — Rita Mae Brown

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common. — Rita Mae Brown

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. — Rita Mae Brown

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance. — Rita Mae Brown

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers. — Rita Mae Brown

When God made man she was practicing. — Rita Mae Brown

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull. — Rita Mae Brown

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens. — Rita Mae Brown

The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it's not about taxes; it's about congressmen distributing the pork. — Rita Mae Brown

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience. — Rita Mae Brown

Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon. — Rita Mae Brown

Life is too short to be miserable. — Rita Mae Brown

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways. — Rita Mae Brown

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. — Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. — Rita Mae Brown

England is an aquarium, not a nation. — Rita Mae Brown

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women. — Rita Mae Brown

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer. — Rita Mae Brown

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. — Rita Mae Brown

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. — Rita Mae Brown

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. — Rita Mae Brown

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness. — Rita Mae Brown

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships. — Rita Mae Brown

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it. — Rita Mae Brown

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ... — Rita Mae Brown

Full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she — Rita Mae Brown

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan. — Rita Mae Brown

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. — Rita Mae Brown

Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples. — Rita Mae Brown

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash. — Rita Mae Brown

An army of lovers shall not fail. — Rita Mae Brown

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. — Rita Mae Brown

Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures. — Rita Mae Brown

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. — Rita Mae Brown

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice. — Rita Mae Brown

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients. — Rita Mae Brown

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble. — Rita Mae Brown

Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven. — Rita Mae Brown

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals. — Rita Mae Brown

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell. — Rita Mae Brown

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it. — Rita Mae Brown

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction. — Rita Mae Brown

Spending is worse than pain, she thought; it lasts longer. — Rita Mae Brown

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life. — Rita Mae Brown

All wars are grotesque blasphemies against God's greatest gift: Life. Until — Rita Mae Brown

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive. — Rita Mae Brown

Love is the wild card of existence. — Rita Mae Brown

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives. — Rita Mae Brown

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal. — Rita Mae Brown

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all. — Rita Mae Brown

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets. — Rita Mae Brown

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late. — Rita Mae Brown

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? — Rita Mae Brown

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt. — Rita Mae Brown

I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance. — Rita Mae Brown

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it. — Rita Mae Brown

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind. — Rita Mae Brown

Whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California. — Rita Mae Brown

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. — Rita Mae Brown

Pain isn't always the enemy. — Rita Mae Brown

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity. — Rita Mae Brown

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. — Rita Mae Brown

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. — Rita Mae Brown

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim. — Rita Mae Brown

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? — Rita Mae Brown

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. — Rita Mae Brown

Gossip is irresponsible communication. — Rita Mae Brown

Writers will happen in the best of families. — Rita Mae Brown

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are. — Rita Mae Brown

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. — Rita Mae Brown