Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth. Rita Mae Brown More Quotes by Rita Mae Brown More Quotes From Rita Mae Brown In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life. Rita Mae Brown europe sex america Familiarity breeds consent. Rita Mae Brown consent familiarity Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act. Rita Mae Brown class mean thinking In sports, as in love, one can never pretend. Rita Mae Brown sports Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship. Rita Mae Brown creative process people Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score. Rita Mae Brown generations government golf I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat. Rita Mae Brown mets cat people I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done. Rita Mae Brown too-much done worry I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish. Rita Mae Brown love two thinking The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. Rita Mae Brown class animal culture The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. Rita Mae Brown real reading sight I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage. Rita Mae Brown be-creative have-courage creative While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm. Rita Mae Brown angel hero men Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger. Rita Mae Brown tennis soul trying Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life. Rita Mae Brown odd-things odd life Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former. Rita Mae Brown powerful mother love You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say. Rita Mae Brown self love book I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. Rita Mae Brown splinters writing doors I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it. Rita Mae Brown judging people thinking Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think. Rita Mae Brown events humor thinking
