"If the tenth of the population that is……" — Jane Rule
"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 sort that would shock even the pessimists among us."
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21 Quotes by Jane Rule
Jane Rule has 21 quotes on this site.
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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking…
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I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for…
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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is…
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To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
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The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability…
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I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with…
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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some…
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It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me…
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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