Jane Rule

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't. ↗

— Jane Rule

#love #love is #married #people #secret

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

— Jane Rule

#conserving #invented #language #learned #like

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. ↗

— Jane Rule

#commitments #content #daily #day #harmonious

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

— Jane Rule

#degrading #each #education #liberation #love

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. ↗

— Jane Rule

#apprenticeship #art #cut #forty #had