Rita Mae Brown

“Political elections are not life and death.”

“Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.”

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

“Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.”

“Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.”

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

“Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.”

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

“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.”

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

“There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.”

“Life is too short to be miserable.”

“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.”

“Morals are private. Decency is public.”

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

“I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.”

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

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

“Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.”

“Normal is the average of deviance.”