Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brownis an American writer, activist, and feminist. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 November 1944
CountryUnited States of America
sports art character
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
style propaganda decadence
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
secret guarantees possession
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
romantic-love two looks
... I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ...
long littles way
piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.
art real people
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
divorce fusion fission
Divorce: fission after fusion.
couple gay thinking
I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture ...
california florida progress
whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
nice america brain
It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
things-in-life revolution reason
the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
two alive language
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
devil
Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
tennis soul trying
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.