Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
– Rita Mae Brown
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
– Rita Mae Brown
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
– Rita Mae Brown
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
– Rita Mae Brown
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
– Rita Mae Brown
If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
– Rita Mae Brown
When God made man she was practicing.
– Rita Mae Brown
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
– Rita Mae Brown
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
– Rita Mae Brown
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.
– Rita Mae Brown
Normal is the average of deviance.
– Rita Mae Brown
What’s the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
– Rita Mae Brown
Writers will happen in the best of families.
– Rita Mae Brown
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your three best friends. If they’re ok, then it’s you.
– Rita Mae Brown
Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
– Rita Mae Brown
Every day you’re alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
– Rita Mae Brown
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.
– Rita Mae Brown
Love is the wild card of existence.
– Rita Mae Brown
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
– Rita Mae Brown
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
– Rita Mae Brown
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.
– Rita Mae Brown
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
– Rita Mae Brown
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
– Rita Mae Brown
Lead me not into temptation – I can find the way myself.
– Rita Mae Brown
If you’re afraid to die, you’re afraid to live. You can’t have one without the other.
– Rita Mae Brown
Loving’s pretty easy. It’s letting someone love you that’s hard.
– Rita Mae Brown
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.
– Rita Mae Brown
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.
– Rita Mae Brown
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
– Rita Mae Brown
He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
– Rita Mae Brown
If you don’t like my book, write your own. If you don’t think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don’t like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend
your good taste.
– Rita Mae Brown
When I got my library card, that was when my life began.
– Rita Mae Brown
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
– Rita Mae Brown
The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.
– Rita Mae Brown
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
– Rita Mae Brown
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don’t give a damn what the self-help books say.
– Rita Mae Brown