Top 200 Rita Mae Brown Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I don’t believe in straight or gay. I really don’t. I think we’re all degrees of bisexual.”

— Rita Mae Brown

102. “Familiarity breeds consent.”

— Rita Mae Brown

103. “One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.”

— Rita Mae Brown

104. “Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.”

— Rita Mae Brown

105. “Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.”

— Rita Mae Brown

106. “All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.”

— Rita Mae Brown

107. “No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won’t forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we’ll include them in our future.”

— Rita Mae Brown

108. “Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.”

— Rita Mae Brown

109. “I believe in art that conceals art.”

— Rita Mae Brown

110. “Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.”

— Rita Mae Brown

111. “While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, “Man”, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.”

— Rita Mae Brown

112. “I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.”

— Rita Mae Brown

113. “I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.”

— Rita Mae Brown

114. “Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.”

— Rita Mae Brown

115. “Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.”

— Rita Mae Brown

116. “I believe all literature started as gossip.”

— Rita Mae Brown

117. “One thing Mom taught me, “You’re going to be dead a long time, so do it now!””

— Rita Mae Brown

118. “There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.”

— Rita Mae Brown

119. “I think gay people are like blondes: There’re fewer of them but they have more fun.”

— Rita Mae Brown

120. “Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they’re the pinnacle of evolution?”

— Rita Mae Brown

121. “Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.”

— Rita Mae Brown

122. “Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That’s up to heaven.”

— Rita Mae Brown

123. “Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.”

— Rita Mae Brown

124. “All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.”

— Rita Mae Brown

125. “I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.”

— Rita Mae Brown

126. “We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?”

— Rita Mae Brown

127. “Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.”

— Rita Mae Brown

128. “When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.”

— Rita Mae Brown

129. “He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”

— Rita Mae Brown

130. “We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.”

— Rita Mae Brown

131. “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.”

— Rita Mae Brown

132. “England is an aquarium, not a nation.”

— Rita Mae Brown

133. “Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.”

— Rita Mae Brown

134. “Computer dating? It’s terrific if you’re a computer!”

— Rita Mae Brown

135. “Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.”

— Rita Mae Brown

136. “As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I’m the only one in the room with balls.”

— Rita Mae Brown

137. “I’m not a person who worries too much about what I’ve done.”

— Rita Mae Brown

138. “Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.”

— Rita Mae Brown

139. “I don’t care whether they like me or not. Everybody’s stupid, that’s what I think. I care if I like me, that’s what I truly care about.”

— Rita Mae Brown

140. “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

141. “Trouble is said to be good for an artist’s soul but almost never is.”

— Rita Mae Brown

142. “Adjectives are the curse of America.”

— Rita Mae Brown

143. “That’s the craziest, dumbass thing I ever heard tell of. What’s the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Hell, if I wanted a man, I’ll get the real thing not one of these chippies.”

— Rita Mae Brown

144. “No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love.”

— Rita Mae Brown

145. “Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I’m not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they’re dull.”

— Rita Mae Brown

146. “I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.”

— Rita Mae Brown

147. “I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

148. “The only people are those who don’t love anybody.”

— Rita Mae Brown

149. “Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don’t find that out until you’re the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.”

— Rita Mae Brown

150. “The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.”

— Rita Mae Brown