Top 248 Quotes & Sayings by Rita Mae Brown - Page 5

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

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

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

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.

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

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

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 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.