Rita Mae Brown - People Quotes

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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

Rita Mae Brown
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
If you become the kind of writer who calls forth heated emotional states, be careful. There are a lot of unbalanced people out there. The statistics on insanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's got to be you.

Rita Mae Brown
Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

Rita Mae Brown
Some people live life and others talk about it.

Rita Mae Brown
The only people who are queer are the people who don't love anybody.

Rita Mae Brown
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

Rita Mae Brown
I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

Rita Mae Brown
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

Rita Mae Brown
I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

Rita Mae Brown
All outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever — fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

Rita Mae Brown
There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

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

Rita Mae Brown
The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

Rita Mae Brown