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
humor thinking events
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
class differences people
There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
struggle people individuality
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
men upset different
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
suicide years two
The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
aquariums england nations
England is an aquarium, not a nation.
laughter real humor
I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
luxury self pity
Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
artist soul trouble
Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
love book self
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
love mother powerful
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
faith world posts
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.
hero angel men
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
writing hollywood thirty
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.