Jane Rule Quotes

• Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

  Jane Rule

• 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.

  Jane Rule

• The message of women’s liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

  Jane Rule

• 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.

  Jane Rule

• 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.

  Jane Rule

• Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

  Jane Rule

• Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

  Jane Rule

• Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they’re married, then one always suspects they don’t.

  Jane Rule

• 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.

  Jane Rule

• 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.

  Jane Rule

• 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.

  Jane Rule

• 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.

  Jane Rule

• Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

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• Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

  Jane Rule

Jane Rule (14)

Birth:	28th March, 1931
Death:	27th November, 2007
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Author, Lecturer, Novelist, Writer

About

Jane Vance Rule was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. She was an American-born Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction. She was the oldest daughter of Carlotta Jane and Arthur Richards Rule. She earned a BA degree in English from Mills College, Oakland, California, in 1952. She moved to work at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, lecturing in English and creative writing from 1959 to 1972. In 1976, she moved to Galiano Island and remained there until the end of her life. In 1989, she donated a collection of her writings to the University of British Columbia. She was inducted into the Order of British Columbia in 1998, and into the Order of Canada in 2007. She wrote several novels include: Desert of the Heart, This Is Not for You, Against the Season, The Young in One Another's Arms, Contract with the World, Memory Board(nominated- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize), and After the Fire(Nominations- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize). She wrote several short stories include: Theme for Diverse Instruments, Outlander, and Inland Passage and Other Stories. She wrote several essays include: Lesbian Images and A hot-eyed moderate. She has written other book, including Loving The Difficult(Non-fiction, Won- Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction).

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