In Her Day Quotes

“We have to replace the love of power with the power of love.’ ”
― Rita Mae Brown, In Her Day: A Novel

“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, In Her Day: A Novel

“Life is a conversation between all living things.”
― Rita Mae Brown, In Her Day: A Novel

“Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.”
― Rita Mae Brown, In Her Day: A Novel

“For all we know compassion could be a conditioned response and one that continues to keep us oppressed by putting other people’s troubles ahead of our own. Isn’t that what good women always do, sacrifice? We could be making a virtue out of oppression.”
― Rita Mae Brown, In Her Day: A Novel

“Freedom means the right to choose how you want to live and it means the right to participate in governmental and economic decisions. You’re right, there is a confusion between political freedom and material benefits. But, to me, freedom means being able to shape your environment, working with others. We’re all responsible to each other in my concept of freedom.”
― Rita Mae Brown, In Her Day: A Novel