Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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

Best, Friends, Suffering

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

Life, Love, Won

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown

Experience, Good, Bad

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
Rita Mae Brown

Women, Beautiful, Strong

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown

Good, Understand, Rude

Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown

Public, Private, Decency

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown

Art, Passion, Moral

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown

Human, Everything, Divorce

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown

Find, Temptation, Lead

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
Rita Mae Brown

Yourself, Everyone, Reward

Life is too short to be miserable.
Rita Mae Brown

Life, Short, Miserable

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown

Happiness, Bad, Memory

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Rita Mae Brown

Love, Women, Men

Humor comes from self-confidence.
Rita Mae Brown

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown

Enjoy, Reason, Alive

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown

Disrespect, Authority, Lively

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
Rita Mae Brown

Negative, Deadline

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown

Decision, Wrong, Follows

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

Life, Fight, Action

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
Rita Mae Brown

Education, Wonderful, Name

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
Rita Mae Brown

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Rita Mae Brown

Love, Anybody, Queer

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Rita Mae Brown

Said, Step, Bisexual

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

Woman, Find, Realize

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown

Work, Trust, Hope

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 28, 1944

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