Jeanette-winterson Quotes

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it i...

I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.

I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets wou...

Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resol...

But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little m...

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates...

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I ge...

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest femal...

Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we nee...

Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me...

What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible...

...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate f...

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness whe...

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we...

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to h...

We were the lucky ones, the notthese, we were the ones who had survived the aerial bombing and fire-...

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound eth...