Life & Wisdom Quote by Rita Mae Brown

Brown’s line lands like a neat little pin in the balloon of New Age self-regard: intuition, she suggests, isn’t some mystic sixth sense so much as logic put on pause because we’re tired of waiting for proof. The wit is in the reframe. She doesn’t deny that people reach “intuitive” conclusions; she demotes the process from revelation to a human coping mechanism. “Suspension” is doing heavy lifting here: it implies intent, not accident. You don’t lack logic; you shelve it.

The subtext is a critique of how we launder impatience into virtue. Calling a snap judgment “intuition” can make it sound refined, even wise, when it may just be the mind’s desire to end uncertainty. Brown’s phrasing exposes the rhetorical trick: intuition becomes a socially acceptable alibi for rushing, for skipping the tedious work of thinking things through, for wanting the comfort of an answer more than the discipline of arriving at one.

Context matters because Brown is a writer with a long history of skewering hypocrisy and self-deception, often with a comic blade. She understands how language flatters us. In an era that increasingly prizes speed - hot takes, instant diagnoses, vibe-based decision-making - the quote reads less like a scold and more like a diagnostic. It’s not anti-intuition; it’s anti-romance. Sometimes intuition is expertise speaking quickly. Brown’s point is that we should ask which it is: accumulated pattern-recognition, or impatience dressed up as insight.