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Jane Rule Quotes

This desert town was man’s own miracle of pure purposelessness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God Picture Quote #1

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability Picture Quote #1

The message of women’s liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education Picture Quote #1

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Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate Picture Quote #1

I believe only in art and failure Picture Quote #1

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity Picture Quote #1

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness Picture Quote #1

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering Picture Quote #1

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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they’re married, then one always suspects they don’t Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression Picture Quote #1

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This desert town was man’s own miracle of pure purposelessness (Jane Rule Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Jane Rule Quotes) I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God (Jane Rule Quotes) Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability (Jane Rule Quotes) The message of women’s liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education (Jane Rule Quotes) Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate (Jane Rule Quotes) I believe only in art and failure (Jane Rule Quotes) Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity (Jane Rule Quotes) Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness (Jane Rule Quotes) To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for (Jane Rule Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Jane Rule Quotes) The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better (Jane Rule Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Jane Rule Quotes) 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 Quotes) Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering (Jane Rule Quotes) Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they’re married, then one always suspects they don’t (Jane Rule Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 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 Quotes) Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression (Jane Rule Quotes)