"The real power of books is their deep……" — Jane Rule
"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 own hearts and minds better."
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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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If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would…
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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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