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Quotes from Rita Mae Brown

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
~ Rita Mae Brown
Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
~ Rita Mae Brown
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
~ Rita Mae Brown
So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
~ Rita Mae Brown
friendship is love made bearable.
~ Rita Mae Brown
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
~ Rita Mae Brown
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
~ Rita Mae Brown
An army of lovers shall not fail.
~ Rita Mae Brown
A narcissism shared by two.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
~ Rita Mae Brown