Rita Mae Brown Quotes

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

"I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common."

what would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill her all over again. How do they know dead people don't open their eyes and see? they don't know nothing about being dead.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person... but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict. Both sides/ideas are right. Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

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.

My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you who have wept in direct sunlight, who have hungered in invisible chains, tremble to the cadence of my legacy: An army of lovers shall not fail.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

Anyway, how did I know the president was for real? I never saw him, just pictures in the paper and they can make those up. How do you know someone is real if you don't see him?

Life is too short to be miserable.

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

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

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

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.

You can't pee in front of little Lord Jesus, go back to the hills.