Rita Mae Brown

Tennis is physical chess.

— Rita Mae Brown

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

— Rita Mae Brown

Adjectives are the curse of America.

— Rita Mae Brown

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

— Rita Mae Brown

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

— Rita Mae Brown

Familiarity breeds consent.

— Rita Mae Brown

Life is too short to be miserable.

— Rita Mae Brown

A narcissism shared by two.

— Rita Mae Brown

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

— Rita Mae Brown

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

— Rita Mae Brown

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

— Rita Mae Brown

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

— Rita Mae Brown

Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience.

— Rita Mae Brown

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

— Rita Mae Brown

“I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.”

— Rita Mae Brown

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

— Rita Mae Brown

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives…

— Rita Mae Brown

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there…

— Rita Mae Brown

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

— 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…

— Rita Mae Brown

“The gradations are infinite and the silliest mistake of all is to define people by their material possessions. It’s even worse if…

— Rita Mae Brown

“Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like…

— Rita Mae Brown

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull…

— Rita Mae Brown

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

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox,…

— Rita Mae Brown

I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of…

— 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…

— Rita Mae Brown

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

Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch…

— Rita Mae Brown

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell…

— Rita Mae Brown

Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible…

— Rita Mae Brown

“You know, it’s hell to work with a cat. They really are smarter than we are. Have you ever gotten anyone to…

— Rita Mae Brown

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

— Rita Mae Brown

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

— Rita Mae Brown

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

— Rita Mae Brown

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

— Rita Mae Brown

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

— Rita Mae Brown

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

— Rita Mae Brown

The only people are those who don't love anybody.

— Rita Mae Brown

Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.

— Rita Mae Brown