Рита Мэй Браун цитаты

О женщинах

„Интуиция – это уступка, которую логика делает нетерпению.“

„Лесбиянки — это женщины, которые любят женщин. Мужчины, способные думать о женщинах только в сексуальном аспекте, определяют лесбиянство как секс между женщинами.“

О женщинах, О сексе

„Плата за конформизм – то, что ты нравишься всем, кроме себя самого.“

„Умение мыслить здраво приходит с опытом, и зачастую опыт приходит от неумения судить здраво.“

„Если бы миром правила логика, мужчины садились бы в седло боком.“

О мире

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

Starting from Scratch (1989)
Контексте: I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.

„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. Both sides/ideas are right.“

Starting from Scratch (1989)

„Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.“

Starting from Scratch (1989)

„I also think living in the country gives you faith. All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. But human life isn't necessarily life. There's so much more out there.“

Interview in OutSmart magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20080727021104/http://home.houston.rr.com/blase/Root%20Folder/ritamae.html (January 1998)

„Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.“

Brown did include this quote in her book Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68, but it appears she was just paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approval version" of the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A PDF scan of the 1981 approval version can be found here http://www.nauca.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1981-11-Basic-Text-Approval-Form-White.pdf, with the quote appearing on p. 11 (p. 25 of the PDF), at the end of the fourth paragraph (which begins "We have a disease; progressive, incurable and fatal"). More in this article https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/ on Quote Investigator website.
Misattributed

„If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.“

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

„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.“

„Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.“

„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.“