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
writing want next
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
art pain chaos
A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
writing past ice
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
self parent underestimate
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
people lines chaos
There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos...
thinking deeds-done tragedy
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.
order confusion survivor
When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
sex couple mistake
sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.
white sexuality chapel
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
bags sexuality danger
many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
sports art character
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
style propaganda decadence
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
secret guarantees possession
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
romantic-love two looks
... I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ...