Rita Mae Brown Quotes - Page 10

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

Tennis is physical chess.

Political elections are not life and death.

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

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

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.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

Adjectives are the curse of America.

Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

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.

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

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

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.