11 Quotes by Jane Rule
- Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
- 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.
- The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
- 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.
- Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
- Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
- 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.
- 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.
- Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
- Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
- I believe only in art and failure.
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