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 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… - Jane Rule
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…
- Jane Rule
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness. - Jane Rule
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.
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
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.
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't. - Jane Rule
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new cons… - Jane Rule
Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new cons…
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. - Jane Rule
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.
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
I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.
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 com… - Jane Rule
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 com…
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. - Jane Rule
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
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