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
love play revolution
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
intuition logic instinct
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
life matter painting
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
dwelling people permanent
The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
mean men people
Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
pain enemy
Pain isn't always the enemy.
mother aunt past
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
class suffering outsiders
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
dark novel humans
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
dating computer terrific
Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
gay lgbt-pride government
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
ignorance army males
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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.
social monogamy greater
Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.