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.
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
compromise is the work of mature people.
. . . I distrust manifest knowledge.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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.
Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
Life is too short to be miserable.
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
A controller doesn't trust hisher 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.
Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
Political elections are not life and death.
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
I believe in art that conceals art.
You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.