Quote

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

Rita Mae Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Degrees
Believe
Really
Think
Thinking
Bisexual
Gay
Straight

More quotes by Rita Mae Brown

Image
Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
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
Image
If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
... I distrust manifest knowledge.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
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
Image
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.
Rita Mae Brown