Quote

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

Rita Mae Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Personal
Seriousness
Call
Shallow
Think
Refuge
Fewer
Thinking
Forth
Experiences
Humor
Events

More quotes by Rita Mae Brown

Image
So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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
I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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
Image
Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
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
Image
Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Never hope for it more than you work for it.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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
Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
Rita Mae Brown
Image
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Rita Mae Brown