A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

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.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

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 Quote

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

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 Quote

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

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 Quote

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

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.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
- Rita Mae Brown Quote