Rita Mae Brown Quotations | Page 3

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

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.

Adjectives are the curse of America.

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

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.

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

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.

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

When God made man she was practicing.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

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.

Tennis is physical chess.

I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

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

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

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

I believe in art that conceals art.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.

Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

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 do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

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.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.