Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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.
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
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.
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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.
People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.