Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

—Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the...

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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

—Rita Mae Brown in Hiss of Death

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

—Rita Mae Brown

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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

—Rita Mae Brown

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Think of a word as a pendulum instead of a fixed entity. A word can sweep by your ear and by its very sound suggest hidden meanings, preconscious associations. Listen to these words: blood, tranquil, democracy. You know what they mean literally but you have associations with those words that are cultural, as well as your own personal associations.

—Rita Mae Brown

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

—Rita Mae Brown

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More quotations tagged with “instinct”

Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

—Malcolm Gladwell

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

—Malcolm Gladwell

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

—Katharine Butler Hathaway

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

—Bertrand Russell

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