Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: art, deadlines, inspiration

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Rita Mae Brown

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: age, self, confidence

About Author

Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.

Carrie, sitting there over your coffee cup in a wasteland of worn-out silver wedding rings, feeding yourself confections of motherhood like the display cakes in the bakery where you worked- all trimmi...

Rita Mae Brown

Carrie, sitting there over your coffee cup in a wasteland of worn-out silver wedding rings, feeding yourself confections of motherhood like the display cakes in the bakery where you worked- all trimmi...

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: motherhood

Well, we're just All-American queers.

Rita Mae Brown

Well, we're just All-American queers.

Rita Mae Brown

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Rita Mae Brown

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: misattributed jane fulton, paraphrasing narcotics anonymous

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

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

Tags: life, love, be yourself, individuality

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

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

Tags: women, love, men, think

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: youth

Every time you behold the Blue Ridge Mountains, every time you feel a snowflake on your eyelashes, every time you see a frog on a lily pad, every time a friend gives you his hand, Brooks, God loves yo...

Rita Mae Brown

Every time you behold the Blue Ridge Mountains, every time you feel a snowflake on your eyelashes, every time you see a frog on a lily pad, every time a friend gives you his hand, Brooks, God loves yo...

Rita Mae Brown

PAST CLAWS AND EFFECT

Rita Mae Brown

PAST CLAWS AND EFFECT

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: experience, good, bad, judgment

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, wo...

Rita Mae Brown

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, wo...

Rita Mae Brown

What would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill her all over again. How do they know dead people don't open their eyes and se...

Rita Mae Brown

What would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill her all over again. How do they know dead people don't open their eyes and se...

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: gay, lesbian, lgbt, love, queer

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.

Rita Mae Brown

At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.

Rita Mae Brown

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: family, writers, writing

Anyway, how did I know the president was for real? I never saw him, just pictures in the paper and they can make those up. How do you know someone is real if you don't see him?

Rita Mae Brown

Anyway, how did I know the president was for real? I never saw him, just pictures in the paper and they can make those up. How do you know someone is real if you don't see him?

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

Tags: men, women

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

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

Tags: events, self, reliance