Jane Rule

Author

1931-03-28

Quotes by Jane Rule

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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