List of Jane Rule Quotes

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.

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.

This Desert Town Was Man's Own Miracle Of Pure Purposelessness.

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.

I Was Very Frightened When I Turned Forty. I Suddenly Thought I Ought To Wake Up And Be Speaking With The Voice Of God.

I Believe Only In Art And Failure.

Conventions, Like Clichés, Have A Way Of Surviving Their Own Usefulness.

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.

Coming Out, All The Way Out, Is Offered More And More As The Political Solution To Our 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.

Human Beings Tolerate What They Understand They Have To Tolerate.

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.