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Jane Vance Rule, CM, OBC (28 March 1931 – 27 November 2007) was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.

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

Conformity, Integrity, Morality, Test, Tests

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. . . . It is far more realistic to suppose that, 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.

Gay, People, Places, Political, Repressive, Tenth

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.

Thinking, Ideas, Clothes, Sew, Although

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.

Art, Cutting, Long, Forty, Novel, Sound

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

Way, Conventions, Surviving, Usefulness

Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.

Giving Up, Imaginations, Men, Resonant, Self, Traditionally

I believe only in art and failure.

Art, Believe, Failure, I Believe

This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

Men, Las Vegas, Miracle, Purposelessness, Town

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Aggravation, Education, Liberation, Message, Messages

It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

Love, Teacher, Kindness, Fear, Live, Wisest

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.

Friends, Good Friend, Doors, Months, Say, Live

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.

Choices, Expressed, Morality, Novelists, Plot, Timid

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

Commitment, Balance, Pleasure, Commitments, Harmonious

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.

Broken Heart, Choices, Lives, People

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

Order, Mimicking, Ethics, Communicating, Invented

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.

Gay, People, Inspire, Among

casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.

Kings, Men, Gambling, Money, Loudly, Man

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.

Boy, Boys, Feminist, Grace, Graces, Outraged

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

Offered, Oppression, Political, Way

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.

Beautiful, Sex, Snow, Eskimo, Consciousness

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