Rita Mae Brown - Live Quotes

8 Sourced Quotes

View all Rita Mae Brown Quotes

It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

Rita Mae Brown

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

Rita Mae Brown

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

Rita Mae Brown

Some people live life and others talk about it.

Rita Mae Brown

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

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