Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. — 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
