Quotes from Rita Mae Brown

The gradations are infinite and the silliest mistake of all is to define people by their material possessions. It's even worse if people define themselves by money. When

I closed the door forever on idealism and the essential goodness of human nature, and I walked to the Greyhound bus station by the same path that I had taken on my arrival.

Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures.

Susan and Harry when they were young. Consumption became tuberculosis. Wasting became cancer. Malaise became stroke, blood disorder became leukemia. If anyone remarried, the second spouse hung on the wall to the sunroom, not

Freedom means the right to choose how you want to live and it means the right to participate in governmental and economic decisions. You're right, there is a confusion between political freedom and material benefits. But, to me, freedom means being able to shape your environment, working with others. We're all responsible to each other in my concept of freedom.

had learned how to use her breasts to get exactly what she wanted from men, hence the nickname "Nightingale," a euphemism for prostitutes, all of whom knew how to use their bosoms. This was

I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there. Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I'd rather be alone.

The most revolutionary thing you can do is be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life, including the pain. Find your passions.

What love had been given her she wished to give to others. Most times they didn't much want it but hounds, horses, cats, and dogs did and they were a gift from the gods, too.

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.

Thank the Lord, Tucker's a corgi," Pewter, upset herself, blurted out. "Smart as a cat.

Friendship distills the sweetness of life.

For all we know compassion could be a conditioned response and one that continues to keep us oppressed by putting other people's troubles ahead of our own. Isn't that what good women always do, sacrifice? We could be making a virtue out of oppression.

Only a human would die for an idea.

All's well here. Hope your life is full of mice, moles, voles, butterflies, and the occasional inattentive bird. In Catitude, Sneaky Pie

Corruption is like a lily—brush against it, however lightly, and some of the pollen smears on you. Therefore choose your friends and your employers wisely.

If you dont like my book write your own.

Nothing sadder on this earth than a human being without a cat. She

Never stop. Truly, never stop. Keep cleaning, cooking, chopping your own wood. Go on walks with the dog. Dig in your garden. We are meant to be busy. Idle hands do the Devil's work.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.