Top 200 Rita Mae Brown Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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2. “Never hope for it more than you work for it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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4. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

— Rita Mae Brown

5. “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

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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7. “If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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8. “The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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9. “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

10. “To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.”

— Rita Mae Brown

11. “Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.”

— Rita Mae Brown

12. “Don’t hope more than you’re willing to work.”

— Rita Mae Brown

13. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”

— Rita Mae Brown

14. “I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”

— Rita Mae Brown

15. “People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they’ll be until they’re in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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16. “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

17. “Morals are private. Decency is public.”

— Rita Mae Brown

18. “Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”

— Rita Mae Brown

19. “Tennis is physical chess.”

— Rita Mae Brown

20. “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

21. “You can love more than one person at a time, and I don’t give a damn what the self-help books say.”

— Rita Mae Brown

22. “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

24. “If you’re afraid to die, you’re afraid to live. You can’t have one without the other.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

27. “I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.”

— Rita Mae Brown

28. “I’ve met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.”

— Rita Mae Brown

29. “A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

31. “Humor comes from self-confidence.”

— Rita Mae Brown

32. “So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You’re lucky if you can control your bladder.”

— Rita Mae Brown

33. “An army of lovers shall not fail.”

— Rita Mae Brown

34. “Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”

— Rita Mae Brown

35. “Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.”

— Rita Mae Brown

36. “We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.”

— Rita Mae Brown

37. “A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.”

— Rita Mae Brown

38. “I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.”

— Rita Mae Brown

39. “So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.”

— Rita Mae Brown

40. “Gossip is irresponsible communication.”

— Rita Mae Brown

41. “To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.”

— Rita Mae Brown

42. “Loving’s pretty easy. It’s letting someone love you that’s hard.”

— Rita Mae Brown

43. “Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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44. “If you can’t raise consciousness, at least raise hell.”

— Rita Mae Brown

45. “Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

47. “You can’t be truly rude until you understand good manners.”

— Rita Mae Brown

48. “It doesn’t matter to me. We’re still cousins in our own way. Blood’s just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

— Rita Mae Brown

49. “Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful – it’s made for the losers.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown