Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American writer, activist, and feminist. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter.
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
A narcissism shared by two.
I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess. " "Maybe that's all they have in common.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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.
Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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.
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.
In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.