Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Culture
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.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Work
The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Creativity, To Be Born Everyday, Writing
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Originality
I became a lesbian out of devout Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man and I gave them my share.
—Rita Mae Brown
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Creativity, Trust, Work, Hope, To Be Born Everyday, Hard Work
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Divorce
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Learning
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn’t sign your name you’d have to pay cash.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Education
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: General, Friend, Humor, Sanity
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Sports
Love is the wild card of existence.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Love
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Goals, Relaxation, Aspirations, Happiness, Simplicity
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Authority
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Language
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Logic
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Passion, Television
Computer dating: it’s terrific if you’re a computer.
—Rita Mae Brown
I believe the true function of age is memory. I’m recording as fast as I can.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Aging, Age
Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful…It’s made for the losers.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Pornography
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Decision, Decisions
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.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Peace
Writers will happen in the best of families.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Family
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Mistakes, Failures, Experience, Decisions, Judgment, Judgement
All you can do in life is to 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.
—Rita Mae Brown
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Love
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Men, World, Logic
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Memory
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Inspiration, Goals
You can’t be truly rude until you understand good manners.
—Rita Mae Brown
Topics: Manners
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Cynthia Ozick American Novelist, Essayist
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman American Feminist, Writer
- Audre Lorde American Poet, Feminist
- Alice Walker American Novelist, Activist
- Susan Sontag American Writer, Philosopher
- Andre Norton American Science Fiction Writer
- Fannie Flagg American Comedian, Novelist
- Joyce Carol Oates American Novelist
- Margaret Truman American Singer
- Lisa Alther American Novelist
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