Book Quote by Jane Rule

“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

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

— Jane Rule

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

“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

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

“You loved the world for its own sake or not at all.”

— Jane Rule

I believe only in art and failure.

— Jane Rule

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

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

— Jane Rule

“…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

This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

— Jane Rule

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