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
giving-up men self
Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.
regret men diversity
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.
men las-vegas miracle
This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.
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.
balance content last life measure pleasures private strive success
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.
although clothes ideas perhaps resigned
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
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.
political way oppression
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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.
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.
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.
commitment balance strive
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
life people silence
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.
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.