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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses frustration over societal biases related to gender, intelligence, and physical attributes.
Jane Rule reflects on the inequity of how society perceives and values traits like height and intelligence differently based on gender. She highlights her desire to escape the limitations placed on her due to being a girl, suggesting that the qualities admired in boys are often seen as flaws in girls, thus inviting a deeper discussion on gender norms and equality.
In practice
During a discussion on gender equality in a classroom setting.
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.
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.
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?
People get angry at others who express a different opinion, while, in fact, they should be angry at themselves. But we must be angry at ourselves the most when we say something today, only to say something else tomorrow.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.
What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.
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