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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
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
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
Rita Mae Brown
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
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Rita Mae Brown
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Rita Mae Brown
When God made man she was practicing.
Rita Mae Brown
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
Rita Mae Brown
I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
Rita Mae Brown
If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
Rita Mae Brown
Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
Rita Mae Brown
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
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Rita Mae Brown
Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
Rita Mae Brown
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
Rita Mae Brown
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown
I believe in art that conceals art.
Rita Mae Brown
Normal is the average of deviance.
Rita Mae Brown
England is an aquarium, not a nation.
Rita Mae Brown
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
Rita Mae Brown
