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
emotional language weak
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
two alive language
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
live-life people
Some people live life and others talk about it.
heart people world
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.
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.
country art sorry
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
dating computer terrific
Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
creative be-creative have-courage
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
gay lgbt-pride government
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
california florida progress
whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
suicide years two
The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
aquariums england nations
England is an aquarium, not a nation.
suffering today ethics
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.