Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
Rita Mae BrownLesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
Rita Mae BrownCreative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
Rita Mae BrownI 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.
Rita Mae Brown