99+ Rita Mae Brown Quotes on Humor, Conformity and Riding Shotgun - Quotes.pub

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I think love is the wild card of existence. Don’t rule it out. Old as we are, it may still get thrown on the table.

Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.

I’m saying we have to have some communality. And we have to have discipline. That’s not the same as saying everyone has to look alike, act alike, think alike. Without community and discipline we’ll stay ineffective fragments or worse, we’ll be obliterated.” “I’m not a political person. All I want is to be left alone to do my work.” “You damn sight better become a political person. Things are so bad no one can afford to sit on the sidelines.

To work at what you love – a heaping up of joys.

Life is a conversation between all living things.

April 23, 1813: “Political problems do not primarily concern truth or falsehood. They relate to good or evil. What in the result is likely to prove evil, is politically false; that which is productive or good, politically is true.

This novel is pegged as a lesbian novel, therefore classified in the ghettos of literature. Anytime any work or any person is qualified, it’s always an insult.

You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.

Course I didn’t want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.

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

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

It really doesn’t take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

I don’t expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

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.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

I’ve got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

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

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

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.

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.

You might say the first American Revolution was against the tyranny of King George. The second American Revolution must be against the tyranny of selfishness.” This.

That’s all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there.

You’re nothing in America if you don’t have debt.

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 can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

I don’t want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

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.

It’s an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.

Well?” He thought about it now. “I think a woman’s sphere can be taxing, and perhaps for you, as you indicate, boring. I would hate to think of you being bored! I – I am rather afraid I would bore you. I am not a wealthy or an educated man.” “But you are a brave one. You fought, and I suppose you will again.” Catherine stared intently into his eyes. “Captain Schuyler, if you would let me be me, you would never bore me. I truly do want to ride, dance, laugh, and.

There’s a thin line between collectivity and chaos...

The owner of Mojo’s was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

Reading Quotes

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

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

Would it upset men if they found out we weren’t different? Are we? Aren’t we? Damned if I know.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the ‘right people’ were dying.

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

I began to wonder if girls could marry girls, because I was sure I wanted to marry Leota and look in her green eyes forever. But I would only marry her if I didn’t have to do the housework. I was certain of that. But if Leota really didn’t want to do it either, I guessed I’d do it. I’d do anything for Leota.

Every place has unsolved crimes because people don’t want to know.

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.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

It’s still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don’t know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

If you don’t like my book, write your own.

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I’ve built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

Strong Quotes

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.

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