Rita Mae Brown Quotes: 14

• 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.

• I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

• 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.

  Riding Shotgun

• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

• 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.

• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

• The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

• Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

  Riding Shotgun

• Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

• I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

• Writers will happen in the best of families.

• A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

• 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.

  Rubyfruit Jungle