Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
• You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
• Life is too short to be miserable.
• The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
• Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
• Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
• Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
• Morals are private. Decency is public.
• Humor comes from self-confidence.
• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
• I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
• I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
• A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
• I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
• Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
• A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
• A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

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