Rita Mae Brown Quotes

"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
(Related: Americans, Friends, Illness, Sanity, Statistics, Suffering)

"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Power, Language, Moon, Tides)

"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Temptation)

"Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: End, Gold)

"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Entertainment, Passion, Propaganda, Television)

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Happiness, Memory)

"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Being)

"Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Impatience, Intuition, Logic)

"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Conformity, Reward)

"Morals are private. Decency is public."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Decency, Morals, Public)

"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Love, Power, Revolution)

"Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Writers)

"Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Love, Women, Sex, Lesbian)

"Writers will happen in the best of families."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Will, Writers)

"You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Manners)

"You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Car)

"Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Successful, Action)

"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Love, People)

"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Art, Entertainment, Passion, Propaganda, Television)

"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Inspiration, Negative)

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Life, Action, Fight, Slavery)

"Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Pornography, Ugly)

"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."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Life, Love, People, Will)

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Men, World)

"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."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Meeting, Woman)

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Trust, Work, Creativity, Hope)

"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Divorce, Tragedy)

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Education, Name)

"Humor comes from self-confidence."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Humor, Self)

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Reason)

"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Writer)

"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Decision, Wrong)

"I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Women, Lesbian)

"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Authority)

"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Age, Memory)

"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
(Related: Life, Time, Work, Bargain, Nothing, Trade)

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Experience, Judgment)