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Quotes from Rita Mae Brown

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
~ Rita Mae Brown
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
~ Rita Mae Brown
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
~ Rita Mae Brown
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
~ Rita Mae Brown
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
~ Rita Mae Brown
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.
~ Rita Mae Brown
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
~ Rita Mae Brown
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
~ Rita Mae Brown
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
~ Rita Mae Brown
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
~ Rita Mae Brown
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
~ Rita Mae Brown
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
~ Rita Mae Brown
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
~ Rita Mae Brown