Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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.

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

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

If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

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.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

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

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

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

So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Carrie, sitting there over your coffee cup in a wasteland of worn-out silver wedding rings, feeding yourself confections of motherhood like the display cakes in the bakery where you worked- all trimming over cardboard.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

When God made man she was practicing.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

If you dont like my book write your own.

A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.

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

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

That's the craziest, dumbass thing I ever heard tell of. What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Hell, if I wanted a man, I'll get the real thing not one of these chippies.