I began to wonder if girls could marry girls, because I was sure I wanted to marry Leota and look in her green eyes forever. But I would only marry her if I didn’t have to do the housework. I was certain of that. But if Leota really didn’t want to do it either, I guessed I’d do it. I’d do anything for Leota.

— Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown Quotes

I don’t care whether they like me or not. Everybody’s stupid, that’s what I think. I care if I like me, that’s what I truly care about.

— Rita Mae Brown

Because the real worship is not one man, one vote, it’s one man, one dollar. Commerce drives democracy, not vice versa.

— Rita Mae Brown

He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.

— Rita Mae Brown

Well?” He thought about it now. “I think a woman’s sphere can be taxing, and perhaps for you, as you indicate, boring. I would hate to think of you being bored! I – I am rather afraid I would bore you. I am not a wealthy or an educated man.” “But you are a brave one. You fought, and I suppose you will again.” Catherine stared intently into his eyes. “Captain Schuyler, if you would let me be me, you would never bore me. I truly do want to ride, dance, laugh, and.

— Rita Mae Brown

You’ll see. You think you can do what boys do but you’re going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn’t matter about brains, brains don’t count. What counts is whether you’re a boy or a girl.

— Rita Mae Brown

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

They’re walking around in clothing but they’re still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.

— Rita Mae Brown

I hope there is a special hell for people who mistreat animals.

— Rita Mae Brown

I’m queer. But why would people get so upset about something that feels so good? Me being a queer can’t hurt anyone, why should it be such a terrible thing? Makes no sense.

— Rita Mae Brown

I think love is the wild card of existence. Don’t rule it out. Old as we are, it may still get thrown on the table.

— Rita Mae Brown

April 23, 1813: “Political problems do not primarily concern truth or falsehood. They relate to good or evil. What in the result is likely to prove evil, is politically false; that which is productive or good, politically is true.

— Rita Mae Brown

Life is a conversation between all living things.

— Rita Mae Brown

You might say the first American Revolution was against the tyranny of King George. The second American Revolution must be against the tyranny of selfishness.” This.

— Rita Mae Brown

I’m saying we have to have some communality. And we have to have discipline. That’s not the same as saying everyone has to look alike, act alike, think alike. Without community and discipline we’ll stay ineffective fragments or worse, we’ll be obliterated.” “I’m not a political person. All I want is to be left alone to do my work.” “You damn sight better become a political person. Things are so bad no one can afford to sit on the sidelines.

— Rita Mae Brown

Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.

— Rita Mae Brown

You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.

— Rita Mae Brown

Every place has unsolved crimes because people don’t want to know.

— Rita Mae Brown

Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A.

— Rita Mae Brown

To work at what you love – a heaping up of joys.

— Rita Mae Brown

This novel is pegged as a lesbian novel, therefore classified in the ghettos of literature. Anytime any work or any person is qualified, it’s always an insult.

— Rita Mae Brown
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