Rita Mae Brown Quotes - Page 4

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

Writers will happen in the best of families.

friendship is love made bearable.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

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.

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

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

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

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.

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.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

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.

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.

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.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

...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.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.