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
bad experience good
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
funny friendship depressing
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
consent familiarity
Familiarity breeds consent.
bisexual virginia steps
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
style propaganda decadence
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
drinking alcohol mind
Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
romantic-love two looks
... I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ...
things-in-life revolution reason
the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
kings done good-things
The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
smart intelligence bigs
It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
emotional language weak
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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.