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.
Jane RuleLove is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
Jane RuleKnowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
Jane RuleI 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