Children Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

— Jeanette Winterson

“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

— Jeanette Winterson

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes,…

— Jeanette Winterson

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time…

— Jeanette Winterson

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all…

— Jeanette Winterson

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“She had navigated her parents' hostile waters with a child's discretion, learning to keep from one the confessions of the other. Learning…

— Jeanette Winterson

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

— Jeanette Winterson

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They…

— Jeanette Winterson

“When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love -- its quality --…

— Jeanette Winterson

He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that.…

— Jeanette Winterson

Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child;…

— Jeanette Winterson

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They…

— Jeanette Winterson

“When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy, but…

— Jeanette Winterson

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my…

— Jeanette Winterson

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“When the children of Israel left Egypt, they were guided by the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire…

— Jeanette Winterson

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Adopted children are self invented because we have to be. There's an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I go to the bathroom. All my life I have been an orphan and an only child. Now I come from a…

— Jeanette Winterson

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

— Jeanette Winterson

“First there is the forest and inside the forest the clearing and inside the clearing the cabin and inside the cabin the…

— Jeanette Winterson