Rita Mae Brown Quotes

“Normal is the average of deviance.”

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”

“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.”

“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”

“Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.”

“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”

“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.”

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

“It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

“I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.”

“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”

“If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”

“Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.”

“Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

“When God made man she was practicing.”

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”

“Writers will happen in the best of families.”

“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”

“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.”

“He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.”

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.”

“Don't hope more than you're willing to work.”

“He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”

“Any woman whose I. Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.”

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

“Two wrongs don't make a right.

No, but three will get you back on the freeway!”

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”

“I also think living in the country gives you faith. All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. But human life isn't necessarily life. There's so much more out there.”

“Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.”

“I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict. Both sides/ideas are right.”