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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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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