The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. Rita Mae Brown More Quotes by Rita Mae Brown More Quotes From Rita Mae Brown He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out. Rita Mae Brown pants brain All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. Rita Mae Brown compassion animal moving Writers will happen in the best of families. Rita Mae Brown family happens writing all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people. Rita Mae Brown individuality struggle people So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder. Rita Mae Brown titles lucky laughing 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 cousin blood people People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals. Rita Mae Brown individual easier people I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual. Rita Mae Brown gay believe thinking Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens. Rita Mae Brown cat dog believe When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives. Rita Mae Brown abandoned mother profound The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave. Rita Mae Brown dance animal death I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of. Rita Mae Brown accused i-can wish Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull. Rita Mae Brown men mean people People who care for you inevitably become beautiful. Rita Mae Brown who-cares beautiful people Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard. Rita Mae Brown hard easy love-you You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it. Rita Mae Brown cliffs car like-you In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose. Rita Mae Brown revolution used america There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients. Rita Mae Brown ninth-grade grades latin Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? Rita Mae Brown frogs evolution thinking In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life. Rita Mae Brown europe sex america