Top 200 Rita Mae Brown Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A.”

— Rita Mae Brown

52. “Every day you’re alive and someone loves you is a miracle.”

— Rita Mae Brown

53. “Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.”

— Rita Mae Brown

54. “English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.”

— Rita Mae Brown

55. “I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.”

— Rita Mae Brown

56. “Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don’t have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.”

— Rita Mae Brown

57. “Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.”

— Rita Mae Brown

58. “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

59. “Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn’t sign your name you’d have to pay cash.”

— Rita Mae Brown

60. “There’s a thin line between collectivity and chaos...”

— Rita Mae Brown

61. “The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.”

— Rita Mae Brown

62. “Pain isn’t always the enemy.”

— Rita Mae Brown

63. “Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.”

— Rita Mae Brown

64. “Self-pity is the simplest luxury.”

— Rita Mae Brown

65. “You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that’s it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

66. “Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I’ll go a step further. You must be bisexual.”

— Rita Mae Brown

67. “Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

69. “Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.”

— Rita Mae Brown

70. “Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.”

— Rita Mae Brown

71. “Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.”

— Rita Mae Brown

72. “If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I’m writing.”

— Rita Mae Brown

73. “Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.”

— Rita Mae Brown

74. “Some people live life and others talk about it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

75. “If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.”

— Rita Mae Brown

76. “Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.”

— Rita Mae Brown

77. “Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Rita Mae Brown

79. “In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it’s a fact of life.”

— Rita Mae Brown

80. “Dean: Don’t you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn’t this disturb you my dear? After all, it’s not normal. Molly: I know it’s not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I’m happy.”

— Rita Mae Brown

81. “What’s the point of prolonging your life if you don’t enjoy it? It’s your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.”

— Rita Mae Brown

82. “When God made man she was practicing.”

— Rita Mae Brown

83. “I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.”

— Rita Mae Brown

84. “I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.”

— Rita Mae Brown

85. “Nothing is unnatural – just untried.”

— Rita Mae Brown

86. “Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.”

— Rita Mae Brown

87. “Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.”

— Rita Mae Brown

88. “I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There’s nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you’ll be loved in return is what’s foolish.”

— Rita Mae Brown

89. “Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you’ll get yeast in your drain tap.”

— Rita Mae Brown

90. “Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language – the case with some American Indian languages – the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.”

— Rita Mae Brown

91. “He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.”

— Rita Mae Brown

92. “While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.”

— Rita Mae Brown

93. “Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.”

— Rita Mae Brown

94. “Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother’s and I’m not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.”

— Rita Mae Brown

95. “Dying’s not so bad. At least I won’t have to answer the telephone.”

— Rita Mae Brown

96. “A narcissism shared by two.”

— Rita Mae Brown

97. “In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.”

— Rita Mae Brown

98. “Don’t ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn’t grow there.”

— Rita Mae Brown

99. “Love is the wild card of existence.”

— Rita Mae Brown

100. “Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.”

— Rita Mae Brown