Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brownis an American writer, activist, and feminist. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 November 1944
CountryUnited States of America
Rita Mae Brown quotes about
believe gossip literature
I believe all literature started as gossip.
creative be-creative have-courage
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
dog dad wagons
Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
golf way miserable
Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
men gentleman female
Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
book writing write-your-own
If you don't like my book, write your own.
animal class culture
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
reality views virginia
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.
emotional language weak
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
smart intelligence bigs
It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
thinking doors infidelity
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.
humor thinking events
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
class differences people
There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
struggle people individuality
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.