Top 30 Jane Rule Quotes (2024 Update)

Jane Rule Quote: “Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.”

1. “Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.”

2. “Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.”

3. “Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.”

Jane Rule Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Jane Rule Quote: “The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.”

5. “The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.”

Jane Rule Quote: “If we don’t bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.”

6. “If we don’t bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.”

7. “Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.”

Jane Rule Quote: “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 commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.”

8. “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 commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.”

Jane Rule Quote: “This desert town was man’s own miracle of pure purposelessness.”

9. “This desert town was man’s own miracle of pure purposelessness.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.”

10. “Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Evelyn looked at Ann, the child she had always wanted, the friend she had once had, the lover she had never considered. Of course she wanted Ann. Pride, morality, and inexperience had kept her from admitting it frankly to herself from the first moment she had seen Ann.”

11. “Evelyn looked at Ann, the child she had always wanted, the friend she had once had, the lover she had never considered. Of course she wanted Ann. Pride, morality, and inexperience had kept her from admitting it frankly to herself from the first moment she had seen Ann.”

Jane Rule Quote: “I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.”

12. “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 Quote: “Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.”

13. “Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.”

Jane Rule Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.”

15. “People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.”

Jane Rule Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

Jane Rule Quote: “I believe only in art and failure.”

17. “I believe only in art and failure.”

Jane Rule Quote: “To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.”

18. “To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.”

Jane Rule Quote: “The message of women’s liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.”

19. “The message of women’s liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.”

Jane Rule Quote: “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 consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.”

20. “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 consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Evelyn wanted to be charming, provocative, desirable, attributes she had never aspired to before out of pride, perhaps, or fear of failure. Now they seemed most instinctive. She was finding, in the miracle of her particular fall, that she was, by nature, a woman. And what a lively thing it was to be, a woman.”

21. “Evelyn wanted to be charming, provocative, desirable, attributes she had never aspired to before out of pride, perhaps, or fear of failure. Now they seemed most instinctive. She was finding, in the miracle of her particular fall, that she was, by nature, a woman. And what a lively thing it was to be, a woman.”

Jane Rule Quote: “The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I’ll see them in six months, and live right next door.”

22. “The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I’ll see them in six months, and live right next door.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.”

23. “Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.”

Jane Rule Quote: “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.”

24. “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 Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they’re married, then one always suspects they don’t.”

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

Jane Rule Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

Jane Rule Quote: “And the world must always seem to be either the Garden of Eden, from which he is about to be expelled, or a circle in hell, into which he has wandered like Dante or Orpheus only to find that he can’t get out.”

28. “And the world must always seem to be either the Garden of Eden, from which he is about to be expelled, or a circle in hell, into which he has wandered like Dante or Orpheus only to find that he can’t get out.”

Jane Rule Quote: “I live in the desert of the heart. I can’t love the whole damned world.”

29. “I live in the desert of the heart. I can’t love the whole damned world.”

Jane Rule Quote: “The desert seems to me the simple truth about the world.”

30. “The desert seems to me the simple truth about the world.”

Jane Rule Quote: “The will bakes bread the nature chokes on. The nature turns the wheel the will breaks on.”

31. “The will bakes bread the nature chokes on. The nature turns the wheel the will breaks on.”

Jane Rule Quote: “Frances was, by nature, an organizer. She wanted to believe that happiness could be arranged. Well, perhaps it could.”

32. “Frances was, by nature, an organizer. She wanted to believe that happiness could be arranged. Well, perhaps it could.”

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