Best 213 quotes of Rita Mae Brown on MyQuotes

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

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

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

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

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

A narcissism shared by two.

An army of lovers shall not fail.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

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

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

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.

As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

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

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

compromise is the work of mature people.

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

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

Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.

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.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

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

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

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

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

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Familiarity breeds consent.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

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.

friendship is love made bearable.

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

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