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
nice america brain
It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
tennis soul trying
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
suffering today ethics
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
gambling greed luck
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
athens sparta modern
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
independent-women feminist body
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
cities oil people
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.
recognition function
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
novelists middle
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
statistics literature quarters
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
smart hunting way
American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
horse literature language
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
single thankful gratitude
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
brain pants
He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.