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
political way oppression
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
way conventions surviving
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
integrity tests morality
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
aggravation messages liberation
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.