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
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.
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.
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.
beautiful sex snow
Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.
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.
beautiful writing hard-work
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.
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.
ignorance knowledge understanding
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.