4 Quotes & Sayings By Jane Rule

Jane Rule was born in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of numerous books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Blue Castle, Fire Sermon, The Gamblers, The Grifters, The Grotesque, Scenes from a Marriage, and a children's book based on the novel of the same name. Her work has been translated into many languages and has earned her many awards. Rule's bestseller Scars is an account of a house fire that she suffered in the mid-seventies Read more

In 2014 she published a memoir called In My Own Time: A Memoir about Ageing and Living Well.

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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
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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. Jane Rule
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I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think. Jane Rule