Jane Rule

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

#love #love

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

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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

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

— Jane Rule

#more #more and more #offered #oppression #our

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

#artists #bearing #because #each #every

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate. ↗

— Jane Rule

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I believe only in art and failure. ↗

— Jane Rule

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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. ↗

— Jane Rule

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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

#because #been #clothes #could #i

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

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