Rita Mae Brown Quotes

• P*rnography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful – it’s made for the losers.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ugly, Made

• Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cash, Divorce, Everything, Human

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose, Intention

• Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn’t sign your name you’d have to pay cash.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cash, Wonderful, Pay, Thing

• You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that’s it.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Someone

• I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassionate, Women, Beautiful, Strong

• Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Action, Every, Weak, Strong

• I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

  Rita Mae Brown

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  Tags in Authority, Most, Believe

• Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Function, Being

• Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Gold, Enough, Find

• As 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 Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meeting, Woman, Room, Realize, Find

• You can’t be truly rude until you understand good manners.

  Rita Mae Brown

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  Tags in Manners, Good, Understand, Until

• Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I’ll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, Must

• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television, Entertainment, Passion, Moral

• The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reward, Everyone, Like

• The 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 Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sanity

• Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Fate, Life, Trust

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Guilt

• I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shoot, Writer

• Humor comes from self-confidence.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Self-Confidence

• To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Love, Power

  Tags in Revolution, Role

Rita Mae Brown (43)

Birth:	28th November, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Rita Mae Brown is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Published in 1973, it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter.

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