“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.”
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Famous Rita Mae Brown Quotes
“I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
Source: Rubyfruit Jungle
“Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!”
Source: Hiss of Death: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”
“Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.”
“Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.”
Source: Cat's Eyewitness: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Source: Rubyfruit Jungle
Source: Poems
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“An army of lovers shall not fail.”
Source: Poems
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.”
Source: A plain brown rapper
“Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.”
“I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.”
“Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.”
Source: Southern discomfort
“To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.”
Source: A plain brown rapper
“The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.”
“Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.”
“Love is the wild card of existence.”
Source: Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small
“Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.”
Source: Venus Envy
“Nothing is unnatural - just untried.”
Source: Venus Envy
“What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?”
Source: Rubyfruit Jungle
“I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.”
“Never hope for it more than you work for it.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.”
“Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.”
“I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.”
“In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.”
“Self-pity is the simplest luxury.”
Source: Bingo
Source: Bingo