Top 248 Quotes & Sayings by Rita Mae Brown - Page 2

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

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.

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.

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.

I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

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

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.

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

friendship is love made bearable.

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.

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

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

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

Some people live life and others talk about it.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

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.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

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

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

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

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

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

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

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

Love is the wild card of existence.

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.

...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.

People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

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.

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

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

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

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

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.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

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.

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.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

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

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

When God made man she was practicing.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.