Rita Mae Brown
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae BrownYou can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae BrownThe reward for comformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
Rita Mae BrownThe statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae BrownA life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae BrownArt is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae BrownI believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae BrownA peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae BrownI am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae BrownRecognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
Rita Mae BrownLead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae BrownI finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae BrownMorals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae BrownNovelty is not necessarily a virtue.
Rita Mae BrownHumor comes from self-confidence.
Rita Mae BrownAbout 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 BrownAs a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Rita Mae BrownThe only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Rita Mae BrownThe reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae BrownCreativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae BrownWhy 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.
Rita Mae BrownDivorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae BrownThis is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Rita Mae BrownOne of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae BrownI 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
