Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Rita Mae Brown on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
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.
Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A
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
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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.
I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
I'd never seen men hold each other. I thought the only things they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight.
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
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.
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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.
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.
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.
I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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.
I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ...