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
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.
regret men diversity
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.
men las-vegas miracle
This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.
kings men gambling
casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.
friends good-friend doors
The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.
character voice firsts
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.
way conventions surviving
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.
thinking ideas clothes
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.
art cutting people
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.
tolerate humans human-beings
Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
ignorance knowledge understanding
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.