Quotes from Rita Mae Brown

You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.

Every place has unsolved crimes because people don't want to know.

Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A

You know, it's hell to work with a cat. They really are smarter than we are. Have you ever gotten anyone to feed you, pay your bills, give you the best chair in the house, tell you how beautiful you are, and groom you daily? Me, neither. Yours

To work at what you love—a heaping up of joys.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

The nature of being a minority is to explain, ad nauseum, how you see the world, assuming the majority can take time away from their own self-indulgence to listen.

the further humans move from nature, the crazier they get. In

I pray, I mean pray, that you will send a few dollars to your local SPCA to help those that have been abandoned, some mistreated.

Polluted, packed, putrid, it's the only place where I have any room, any hope. I got to go back and stick it out. At least in New York City I can be more than a breeder of the next generation.

America is a series of river crossings; these rivers made us rich. They left the soil that has made us the breadbasket of the world, whether it's the James or the Ohio, the Mississippi or the Missouri. The great rivers define us and made transportation possible until the railroads revolutionized life in the 1830s and 1840s.

I realized that liking or not liking someone was irrelevant. It was the time in history that you shared. A time binds you to another person just as passions tie to you to the dead.

In the face of her beauty My rhythm shudders And I am no longer a poet But just another woman in love.

For all our fights, there was no getting around the fact that Carrie wasn't fooled by show and she regarded most of the world around her as a show for the rich at the expense of the poor.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instinct, and never hope more than you work

All wars are grotesque blasphemies against God's greatest gift: Life. Until

In the little patch of concrete by the front porch were the two pennies stuck in there when Leroy and I started first grade. "Long as we got those two cents," Carrie would say, "we ain't broke.

Why?" Mrs. Hogendobber might preach about evil, but when confronted with it she was at a loss. She expected the Devil with green horns or a human being with a snarling face. It had never once occurred to her in her long and relatively happy life that evil is ordinary.

that ole frog is more together than I am. That frog doesn't want to make movies. That frog hasn't even seen movies and furthermore that frog doesn't give a big damn. It just swims, eats, makes love, and sings as it pleases. Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

Spending is worse than pain, she thought; it lasts longer.

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 trimming over cardboard.

Many of you remember when Dutch Elm disease swept the East Coast. People in big cities saw the trees die but it didn't register, in any way at all, that this would compromise oxygen. Think of it, that many trees dying in that short a time span means there is less photosynthesis. Less oxygen is being produced. Therefore pollution in the big cities becomes more pronounced. These basics do not occur to people who work in buildings where the windows don't open.

While industry and cars cause pollution, removing trees exacerbates the problem.

He held up a DVD in a blue cardboard envelope, which bore Pete's distinctive scrawl. "Can't believe the technology." "If I have a good Christmas I'll buy myself a DVD player. Still have a year of car payments left." She paused. "Prices keep coming down.