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“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

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

“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

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

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

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

“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, Riding Shotgun

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

“If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“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, Sudden Death

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

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

“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

“When God made man she was practicing.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Cat on the Scent

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
― Rita Mae Brown

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

“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle. ”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Don't hope more than you're willing to work.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death

“He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.”
― Rita Mae Brown

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

“Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“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, Rubyfruit Jungle

“Normal is the average of deviance.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

“Two wrongs don't make a right.

No, but three will get you back on the freeway!”
― Rita Mae Brown

“I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Southern Discomfort

“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, Rubyfruit Jungle

“I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“-“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. “
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― Rita Mae Brown

“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, Rubyfruit Jungle

“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

“When I got my library card, that's when my life began.”
― 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 are okay, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“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, Rubyfruit Jungle

“Language asserts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Starting from Scratch

“The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“I had never thought I had much in common with anybody. I had no mother, no father, no roots, no biological similarities called sisters and brothers. And for a future I didn't want a split-level home with a station wagon, pastel refrigerator, and a houseful of blonde children evenly spaced through the years. I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there. Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I'd rather be alone.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle

“Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Six of One

“Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?”
― Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every 4 Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Poems