Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

Rita Mae Brown
Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.

Rita Mae Brown
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
Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.

Rita Mae Brown
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

Rita Mae Brown
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

Rita Mae Brown
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

Rita Mae Brown
When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

Rita Mae Brown
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

Rita Mae Brown
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

Rita Mae Brown
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

Rita Mae Brown
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it.... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character.... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

Rita Mae Brown
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
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Rita Mae Brown
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

Rita Mae Brown