Rita Mae Brown Quotes - Page 7

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

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

An army of lovers shall not fail.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.

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.

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

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.

The only people are those who don't love anybody.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.