Rita Mae Brown

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."

Rita Mae Brown

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."

Rita Mae Brown

"Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds."

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rita Mae Brown

"Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard."

Rita Mae Brown

"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."

Rita Mae Brown

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."

Rita Mae Brown

"Writers will happen in the best of families."

Rita Mae Brown

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."

Rita Mae Brown

"Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places."

Rita Mae Brown

"Normal is the average of deviance."

Rita Mae Brown

"I also think living in the country gives you faith. All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. But human life isn't necessarily life. There's so much more out there."

Rita Mae Brown

"I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard."

Rita Mae Brown

"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."

Rita Mae Brown

"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."

Rita Mae Brown

"You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it."

Rita Mae Brown

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."

Rita Mae Brown

"Humor comes from self-confidence."

Rita Mae Brown

"I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate."

Rita Mae Brown

"Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women."

Rita Mae Brown

"If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle."

Rita Mae Brown

"Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself."

Rita Mae Brown

"All decisions are made on insufficient evidence."

Rita Mae Brown

"When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began."

Rita Mae Brown

"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides."

Rita Mae Brown