Rita Mae Brown Quotes

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Rita Mae Brown

I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle, 1973)

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Rita Mae Brown

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Rita Mae Brown (Riding Shotgun)

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

Rita Mae Brown

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

Rita Mae Brown

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

Rita Mae Brown

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.

Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle, 1973)

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Rita Mae Brown

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown (Alma Mater)

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.

Rita Mae Brown

Love is the wild card of existence.

Rita Mae Brown

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Rita Mae Brown

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Rita Mae Brown (Starting from Scratch)

Language asserts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Rita Mae Brown (Riding Shotgun)

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Rita Mae Brown

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Rita Mae Brown (Hiss of Death)

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

Rita Mae Brown