Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .

High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.

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

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.

If you can't raise consciousness at least raise hell

Everybody gets married. It's something you have to do, like dying.

When God made man she was practicing.

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

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

That's animals, same thing doesn't happen to people does it? That's gonna happen to me someday, too? No, not me. I ain't dying. I don't care what they say, I ain't dying. I'm not lying on my back under the ground in everlasting darkness. Not me. I'm not closing my eyes. If I close my eyes, I might not open them.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

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

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

I wished I could get up in the morning and look at the day the way I used to when I was a child. I wished I could walk down the streets and not hear those constant, abrasive sounds from the mouths of the opposite sex. Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself.