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Famous Jeanette Winterson Quotes
“Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.”
“I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.”
“What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.”
“A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.”
“It is the nature of walls that they should fall.”
“The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.”
“The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.”
“Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.”
“Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.”
“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”
“I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.”
“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”
“What you risk reveals what you value.”
“I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.”
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.”
“I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.”
“My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.”
“I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.”
“I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.”