Jane Rule
Jane Rule
Jane Vance Rule, CM, OBC was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 March 1931
CountryCanada
broken-heart people choices
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.
boys feminist grace
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
success commitment balance
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.
aggravation messages liberation
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
political way oppression
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
order mimicking ethics
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
commitment balance strive
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
voice wake-up frightened
I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.
love-is people secret-love
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
choices plot fiction
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.
kings men gambling
casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.
friends good-friend doors
The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.
gay people inspire
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.