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

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 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 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

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

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

- 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…

- Jane Rule

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

- Jane Rule