List of Jane Rule Quotes

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Jane Rule
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The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. it should be sweet news to every womanin the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal.
Sweet Brother Gay
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.
Giving Up Men Self
This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.
Men Las Vegas Miracle
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.
Regret Men Diversity
I was very frightened when i turned forty. i suddenly thought i ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of god.
Voice Wake Up Frightened
I believe only in art and failure.
Art Believe I Believe
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.
Way Conventions Surviving
I remember how surprised i was when my first novel was about to be published and i was informed that i could be sued for anything any one of my characters said. 'but i often don't agree with what they say,' i protested. the lawyer was not interested in the clear distinction i make between my own voice and the voices of my characters. neither, i have found, are many of my readers.
Character Voice Firsts
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Political Way Oppression
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.
Beautiful Hard Work Writing
Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
Tolerate Humans Human Beings
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.
Real Book Heart
  • Born: March 28, 1931
  • Died: November 27, 2007
  • Occupation: Writer
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