Jane Rule Quotes
"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Oppression, Solution)
"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 growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Work, People, Hard work, Understanding, Writing)
"The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Education, Love, Women)
"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 lives."
- Jane Rule
(Related: People, Choices, Force)
"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 live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Life, Success, Balance, Content, Day, Measure)
"Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Morality, Language, Order)
"Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Morality, Conformity, Integrity)
"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
(Related: Life, People, Right, Silence)
"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
(Related: Ideas, Clothes)
"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 long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Art, People, May, Sound)
"Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate."
- Jane Rule
"Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Love, People)
"I believe only in art and failure."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Art, Failure)
"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."
- Jane Rule
(Related: People, Gay, Legislation, Majority, Population, Tomorrow)