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

Rita Mae Brown Love

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

Rita Mae Brown Be Yourself Individuality Love

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Gay Lesbian Lgbt Love Queer

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Love

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Carpe Diem Enjoy Life Hedonism Life Pleasure

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

Rita Mae Brown Humor Insanity

When God made man she was practicing.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Feminism Humor

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Bad Memory Forgiveness Happiness Memory

Writers will happen in the best of families.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Family Writers Writing

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Art Deadlines Inspiration

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Funny

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

Rita Mae Brown Books Life

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Libraries Reading

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Children Kids Marriage Married

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Family

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Language Power

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Conformity Individuality Self Love Self Respect

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Bad Judgement Experience Good Judgement Judgment Mistakes Paradox

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Women Youth

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Comedy Comedy Humor Comic Comic Books Comics Humor Inspirational Jared Wheat Opportunities Opportunity Opportunity Temptation Reason Reasons Sense Of Humor Show Off Show Offs Showing Off

If you dont like my book write your own.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Humorous Quotes

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Drugs

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Insanity Misattributed Jane Fulton Paraphrasing Narcotics Anonymous

That's the craziest, dumbass thing I ever heard tell of. What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Hell, if I wanted a man, I'll get the real thing not one of these chippies.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Fiction Novel Lgbt

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Authority Disrespect Lively Rita Mae Brown

A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Failures Mistakes

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Men Women

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown One Day

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Self Confidence

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

Rita Mae Brown Self Reliance

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Vices Foibles

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

Rita Mae Brown Love Men Think

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Beautiful Strong Lesbian

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.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Friends Statistics

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

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Passion Television Moral

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown World Ride Place