Rita Mae Brown Thinking Quotations

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

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.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture ...

Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

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.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.

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.