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.
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.
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
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.
Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.
In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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.
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.
Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
Never hope for it more than you work for it.
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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.
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.