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Jane Rule

"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."

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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."

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"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."
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"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."
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"The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education."
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"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
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"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."
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"I believe only in art and failure."
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"Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity."
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"Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering."
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"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."
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"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."
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