Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

If you dont like my book write your own.

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.

A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.

So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.

If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.

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