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Rita Mae Brown [1944-0] American

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Rita Mae Brown is an American writer, activist, and feminist. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter.

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The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.	Love	101
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.	Experience, Good	102
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.	Best	103
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.	Happiness	104
Morals are private. Decency is public.		105
Humor comes from self-confidence.	Humor	106
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.		107
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.	Women	108
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.		109
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.		110
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.	Women	111
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.		112
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.	Communication, Power	113
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.		114
Life is too short to be miserable.		115
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.		116
I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.		117
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.		118
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?		119
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.		120
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.	Men	121
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.	Hope, Trust	122
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.		123
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.		124
Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.		125
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.		126
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.		201
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.		202
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.		203
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.		204
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.		205
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.		206
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.		207
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.		208
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.		209
While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.		210
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.		211
I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.		212
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.		213
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.	Car	214
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.		215
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.		216
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.		217
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.		218
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.		219
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.		220
Normal is the average of deviance.		221
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.		222
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.		223
I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.		224
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.		225
Political elections are not life and death.		226
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.		301
Writers will happen in the best of families.		302
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.		303
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.		304

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