Jane Vance Rule, CM, OBC (28 March 1931 – 27 November 2007) was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction. Read full biography of Jane Rule →
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... →
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
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.
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... →
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... →
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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... →
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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... →
I believe only in art and failure.
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 Vance Rule, CM, OBC (28 March 1931 – 27 November 2007) was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.