Quotes by Jane Rule

Jane Rule

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.

Diversity

Men

Regret

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

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. …It is far more realistic to suppose that, 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.

Gay

People

Political

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.

Art

Jobs

Thinking

I believe only in art and failure.

Art

Believe

I Believe

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.

Boys

Feminist

Grace

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.

Art

Cutting

Long

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

Firsts

Voice

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

Frightened

Voice

Wake Up

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.

Clothes

Ideas

Thinking

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Aggravation

Art

Beautiful

Believe

Boys

Brother

Character

Clothes

Cutting

Diversity

Education

Ethics

Feminist

Firsts

Frightened

Gay

Giving Up

Grace

Hard Work

I Believe

Ideas

Ignorance

Jobs

Kindness

Knowledge

Life

Long

Love

Love Is

Men

Messages

Mimicking

Order

People

Political

Regret

Secret Love

Self

Silence

Sweet

Teacher

Thinking

Understanding

Voice

Wake Up

Writing

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Quotes by Jane Rule

Jane Rule

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.

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.

I believe only in art and failure.

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.

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.

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’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.

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