Quote

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

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
Book
Self
Damn
Books
Giving
Help
Time
Helping
Love
Give
Persons
Person

More quotes by Rita Mae Brown

Image
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Familiarity breeds consent.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Never hope for it more than you work for it.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Some people live life and others talk about it.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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
Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Political elections are not life and death.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I believe in art that conceals art.
Rita Mae Brown