Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“Evelyn wanted to be charming, provocative, desirable, attributes she had never aspired to before out of pride, perhaps, or fear of failure. Now they… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“…she stretched and yawned, a suggestion of desire informing all her nerves. Extraordinary…not that she should feel desire but that she should not have… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it?… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
