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.
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
Political elections are not life and death.
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
When God made man she was practicing.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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.
It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
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.
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.
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.