People Love Life Author Right 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. - Jane Rule
Morality Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. - Jane Rule
Oppression Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. - Jane Rule
Content Life 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
Ideas I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think. - Jane Rule
People 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
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. - Henrik Ibsen
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. - Rem Koolhaas
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. - Vincent Schiavelli