Rita Mae Brown Quotes, Thoughts and Image

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

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

Some people live life and others talk about it.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

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

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Love is the wild card of existence.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

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.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Life is too short to be miserable.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

Normal is the average of deviance.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.