All Jane Rule Quotes
- Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. Conformity
- Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. Communicate
- 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 me. Boy
- 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,… Bear
- To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. Balance
- Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability. Collective
- The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our… Better
- If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a… Among
- I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God. Forty
- Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't. Always Suspects
- Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. All
- 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… All
- 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 at… Badly
- I believe only in art and failure. Art
- The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. Aggravation
- Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of… Beautiful
- Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate. Beings
- I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very… Aged
- 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. Been
- My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To… Balance
- People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their… Broken