Quotes from Rita Mae Brown

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Normal is the average of deviance.

Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Oh great, you too. So now I wear this label 'Queer' emblazoned across my chest. Or I could always carve a scarlet 'L' on my forehead. Why does everyone have to put you in a box and nail the lid on it? I don't know what I am—polymorphous and perverse. Shit. I don't even know if I'm white. I'm me. That's all I am and all I want to be. Do I have to be something?

Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don't give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

All this overt heterosexuality amused me. If only they knew.

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

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.

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.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

I began to wonder if girls could marry girls, because I was sure I wanted to marry Leota and look in her green eyes forever. But I would only marry her if I didn't have to do the housework. I was certain of that. But if Leota really didn't want to do it either, I guessed I'd do it. I'd do anything for Leota.

My tombstone is going to say: 'Born: Yes. Died: Yes.

You gay?" "Oh, I wouldn't say I was gay. I'd just say I was enchanted." "Me too.

I'd never seen men hold each other. I thought the only things they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight.

You have nothing to fear in life, not you, not anyone, because every bad thing you think can happen will- but not always in the form you imagine