all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand.… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me.… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including the pain.… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages -… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“what would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“You know, it’s hell to work with a cat. They really are smarter than we are. Have you ever gotten anyone to feed you,… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
