Rita Mae Brown quotes

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

#Love #Life #Being Yourself

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

#Happiness #Funny Inspirational #Clever

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Simple #Looks

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Love #Hurt #Pregnancy

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Failure #Procrastination #Done

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Single #Gratitude #Grateful

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

#Inspirational #Women #Self Esteem

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Reading #Book #Library

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 #Motivational #Spiritual

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

#Choices #Decision #Peacefulness

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Mean #Kids #People

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Fighting #Action #Reactions

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 #Television

About all you can do in life is be who you are.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Self Esteem #Be Who You Are #Life Is

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.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Successful #Sacrifice #Failing

Love is the wild card of existence.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Love #Love Is #Cards

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

#Life #Alive #Leisure

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Brain #Pants

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.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Jobs #Writing #Novel

Writers will happen in the best of families.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Family #Writing #Happy Family

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Literature #Quiet #Tranquility

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Men #Needs #Needed

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Dwelling #People

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Devil

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
-- Rita Mae Brown

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

#Funny #Friendship #Depressing

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Love You #Miracle #Alive

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Christian #Gay #Men

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Consciousness #Hell #Raises

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Fun #Gay #Thinking

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

#Gratitude #Appreciation #Attitude

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.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Inspirational #Teacher #Work

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Car #Cliffs #Like You

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

#Business #Inspirational Life #Goal

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Trust

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

#Sex #Men #Thinking

Morals are private. Decency is public.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Moral #Privacy #Decency

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Memorable #Moon #Tides

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

#Divorce #Heartfelt #Tragedy

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Sexy #Memorable #Math

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Birthday

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

#Balls #Rooms #Realizing

Familiarity breeds consent.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Consent #Familiarity

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Way #Groups #Discrimination

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Struggle #People #Individuality

The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Suicide #Hands #Hair

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
-- Rita Mae Brown

#Horse #Doubt #Looks