Best Quotes by Rita Mae Brown (Top 10)
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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
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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 you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
Rita Mae Brown
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The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
Rita Mae Brown
More Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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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 friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
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Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
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I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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