Rita Mae Brown - Woman Quotes

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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

Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers.... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

Rita Mae Brown

Consider the 'new' woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home. It remains for each woman to find her place and each man his in this cultural chaos of mixed signals.

Rita Mae Brown

A woman who will tell her age will tell anything.

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

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