Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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

Well, we're just All-American queers.

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

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?

I also think living in the country gives you faith. All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. But human life isn't necessarily life. There's so much more out there.

You gay?”
“Oh, I wouldn’t say I was gay. I’d just say I was enchanted.”
“Me too.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

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.

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.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They’re easily led and they don’t look where they’re going until it’s too late.

My tombstone is going to say: 'Born: Yes. Died: Yes.

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