Quotes from Rita Mae Brown

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

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

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

Life is too short to be miserable.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

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

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

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

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

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

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

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

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Political elections are not life and death.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.