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Jane Rule Quotes

«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»
Author: Jane Rule (Critic, Novelist) | About: Being a Woman, Men | Keywords: height, outraged, the Graces
«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.»
«Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.»
«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.»
«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.»
«I'm a non-believer. I don't believe in the existence of a God. I don't believe in the Christian dogma. I find it horrifyingly silly. The intolerance that flows from organized religion is the most dangerous thing on the planet.»
«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.»
«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 never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.»
Author: Jane Rule (Critic, Novelist) | Keywords: sew
«Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.»