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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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More quotes by Rita Mae Brown
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Rita Mae Brown
People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
Rita Mae Brown
American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
Rita Mae Brown
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
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
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
Rita Mae Brown
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
Rita Mae Brown
compromise is the work of mature people.
Rita Mae Brown
People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
Rita Mae Brown
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
Rita Mae Brown
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
Rita Mae Brown
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
Rita Mae Brown
The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
Rita Mae Brown
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
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
Rita Mae Brown
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
Rita Mae Brown
I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
Rita Mae Brown
