Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Famous Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Source: Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
“By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.”
“To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.”
“I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.”
“You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: The Passion
“I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.”
“We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.”
Source: The Passion
Source: Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
“Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.”
Source: The Passion
Source: The Passion
“Only the impossible is worth the effort.”
Source: Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
“Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.”
Source: Love: Vintage Minis
“Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.”
“Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.”
“In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.”
“Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.”