Rita Mae Brown

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

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

Humor comes from self-confidence.

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

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

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

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

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

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

So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.

A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

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

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.

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

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