Jane Rule quote: "The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better."

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some...
JANE RULE

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it a...
JANE RULE

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be conte...
JANE RULE

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our de...
JANE RULE

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morali...
JANE RULE

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than t...
JANE RULE

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE

I'm a non-believer. I don't believe in the existence of a God. I don't believe in the Christian dogm...
JANE RULE

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be conte...
JANE RULE

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for...
JANE RULE

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

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent ...
JANE RULE

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be conten...
JANE RULE

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because alt...
JANE RULE

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because alt...
JANE RULE

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of peo...
JANE RULE

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

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own o...
JA RULE

I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also s...
JA RULE

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1...
JA RULE

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate famili...
JA RULE

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
JA RULE

Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
JA RULE

I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
JA RULE

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.
JA RULE

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
JA RULE

There is only one me.
JA RULE

Pain is love.
JA RULE

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking...
JA RULE

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I cal...
JA RULE

These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.
JA RULE

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don&...
JA RULE

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room livi...
JA RULE

That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the...
JA RULE

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in ...
JA RULE

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper ...
JA RULE

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not j...
JA RULE

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of ...
JA RULE

I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burne...
JA RULE

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
JA RULE

I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or ju...
JA RULE

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
ANN RULE

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
ANN RULE

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
ANN RULE

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a lit...
ANN RULE

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's ...
ANN RULE

I always want to give the victim a voice.
ANN RULE

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because th...
ANN RULE

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own b...
ANN RULE

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a tri...
ANN RULE

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
ANN RULE

I was prepared for [being waived]. You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN RULE

I was prepared for (being waived). You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN RULE

It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling tha...
ALLAN RULE

It is kind of ironic that the rule was named after me, and I'm still here. It's kind of like God is ...
ALLAN RULE

We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of spee...
JA RULE

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It...
ANN RULE

My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from...
JA RULE

A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very diff...
JA RULE

Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, ...
JA RULE

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
ANN RULE

The notion is not that if you're a monopoly, you compete less vigorously or with more deference to y...
CHARLES RULE

I didn't want to be a boy; but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him a...
JANICE RULE

doesn't like to see young black men help others who have criminal records.
JA RULE

It's a war on hip hop,
JA RULE

This is a war against hip-hop,
JA RULE

The Best of Both Worlds.
JA RULE

No, the Daily News is all right. That's the Post!
JA RULE

I always study the enemy, so I might check it out. But it looks kinda bull-.
JA RULE

He's my friend. He's my brother.
JA RULE

Pain is Love
JA RULE

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions-I came to a conclusion: I am not into reli...
JA RULE

They have to do the capability analysis for the sage grouse.
LAURIE RULE

We undertook a project that had never been done before.
RICK RULE

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be...
ANN RULE

We have no tolerance for fraud - not against FEMA, not against the American taxpayer, our partners a...
NATALIE RULE

All a temporary restraining order gets is a 10-day order so all the parties involved can make their ...
CHARLES RULE

Dr. Benjamin Spock, who worked in a veterans’ hospital dealing with emotional illnesses during Wor...
ANN RULE

I don't know if it's fear or love, but it's a question of something Microsoft knows it has to do and...
CHARLES RULE

The Court of Appeals decision pretty much made it impossible for the government to prevail, ... The ...
CHARLES RULE

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key...
CHARLES RULE

You will begin to hear why Microsoft is doing these things and why they're good for consumers and fo...
CHARLES RULE

Her parents could have named her Aria, or Harmonia, or Tessitura, or a hundred other clever names th...
ADI RULE

Unfortunately, the congressman does not understand the rule-making process. There is only the best o...
NATALIE RULE

He ruled that there were some flaws in their (the U.S. Forest Service's) decision. We were very happ...
LAURIE RULE

They have to do this capability analysis in a site-specific manner.
LAURIE RULE

We've got a huge population of people that have been evacuated with very little by way of possession...
NATALIE RULE

Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
JA RULE

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
JA RULE

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before ...
JA RULE

I was prepared for [being waived]. You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE

I was prepared for (being waived). You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE

It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling tha...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE

It is kind of ironic that the rule was named after me, and I'm still here. It's kind of like God is ...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE

It's going to be an excellent time, a really fun evening, and that's what we want -- excellent food,...
JUDY K. RULE

I tell people the public library is a lot like public broadcasting. We depend more and more on the p...
JUDY K. RULE

I'm ready. I went out and bought a dress, and I'm ready to go.
JUDY K. RULE

You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g...
JANE KRAKOWSKI

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr...
JANE FONDA

Every savage can dance.
JANE AUSTEN

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#...
JANE PAULEY

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
JANE AUSTEN

At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.
JANE SEYMOUR

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome...
JANE ADDAMS

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di...
JANE JACOBS

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
JANE AUSTEN

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
JANE AUSTEN

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
JANE AUSTEN

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...
JANE ADDAMS

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
JANE ELLIOT

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...
JANE AUSTEN

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
JANE ADDAMS

I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost ...
JANE LYNCH

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
JANE PAULEY

I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know t...
JANE GREEN

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'...
JANE FONDA

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
JANE BIRKIN

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag...
JANE SMILEY

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying...
JANE MCGONIGAL

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...
JANE FONDA

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ...
JANE ELLIOT

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who...
JANE CAMPION

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
JANE AUSTEN

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re...
JANE HADDAM

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just...
JANE KRAKOWSKI

I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her...
JANE LINDSKOLD

After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou...
JANE LINDSKOLD

The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ...
JANE RIDLEY

I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them...
JANE BIRKIN

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t...
JANE SMILEY

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
JANE PAULEY

It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and...
JANE POYNTER

When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o...
JANE FONDA

I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I...
JANE GREEN

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple...
JANE YOLEN

Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ...
JANE GOODALL

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ...
JANE CURTIN

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
JANE ELLIOT

I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve...
JANE BADLER

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 ...
JANE PAULEY

There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings....
JANE LINDSKOLD

I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.
THOMAS JANE

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
JANE FONDA

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER

A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
JANE SEYMOUR

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
CALAMITY JANE

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
CALAMITY JANE

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ...
CALAMITY JANE

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN

Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER

What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN

Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN

The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh...
JANE JACOBS

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN

Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON

We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

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The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

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