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Quotes from 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
humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including the pain. Passion. Find your passions.
~ Rita Mae Brown
At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.
~ Rita Mae Brown
That's animals, same thing doesn't happen to people does it? That's gonna happen to me someday, too? No, not me. I ain't dying. I don't care what they say, I ain't dying. I'm not lying on my back under the ground in everlasting darkness. Not me. I'm not closing my eyes. If I close my eyes, I might not open them.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Then you stay in that root cellar until Jesus comes back.
~ Rita Mae Brown
You can't pee in front of little Lord Jesus, go back to the hills.
~ Rita Mae Brown
He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.
~ Rita Mae Brown
We have to replace the love of power with the power of love.' 
~ Rita Mae Brown
You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl.
~ Rita Mae Brown
April 23, 1813: "Political problems do not primarily concern truth or falsehood. They relate to good or evil. What in the result is likely to prove evil, is politically false; that which is productive or good, politically is true.
~ Rita Mae Brown
PAST CLAWS AND EFFECT
~ Rita Mae Brown
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 novels, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
~ Rita Mae Brown
That's the craziest, dumbass thing I ever heard tell of. What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Hell, if I wanted a man, I'll get the real thing not one of these chippies.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Life is a conversation between all living things.
~ Rita Mae Brown
You might say the first American Revolution was against the tyranny of King George. The second American Revolution must be against the tyranny of selfishness." This
~ Rita Mae Brown
Given that 80 percent plus of the U.S. population lives in cities and suburbs, the connection with nature is fading to the detriment of all living creatures.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.
~ Rita Mae Brown
They're walking around in clothing but they're still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.
~ Rita Mae Brown
When I got my library card, that's when my life began.
~ Rita Mae Brown
small log cabin once stood near the creek, but as the Jones family's fortunes
~ Rita Mae Brown
This novel is pegged as a lesbian novel, therefore classified in the ghettos of literature. Anytime any work or any person is qualified, it's always an insult.
~ Rita Mae Brown
full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she
~ Rita Mae Brown