Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown

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.
Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown

Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
Rita Mae Brown

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

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
Rita Mae Brown

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

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Rita Mae Brown

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Rita Mae Brown

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

Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
Rita Mae Brown