---
title: "2 Life Ordinary Quotes By Jeanette Winterson"
description: "2 Life Ordinary quotes by Jeanette Winterson. Plus more from Jeanette Winterson and more Life Ordinary sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/jeanette-winterson-166_accepting_i-do-not-accept-that-life-has-an-ordinar_1370454.png"
---

> [I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-do-not-accept-that-life-has-an-ordinary-shape-or-that-there-is/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/jeanette-winterson-166_accepting_i-do-not-accept-that-life-has-an-ordinar_1370454.png)

> [“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it is wonder, often it is horror. Only in the living of it does life seem ordinary. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/life-we-imagine-is-familiar-enough-until-we-begin-to-tell-it-to/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/jeanette-winterson-166_life_life-we-imagine-is-familiar-enough-until_1443689.png)

## More by Jeanette Winterson

> [“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/after-nine-nights-must-come-ten-and-every-desperate-meeting-only/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/you-never-give-away-your-heart-you-lend-it-from-time-to-time-if-it/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-have-found-that-i-am-not-a-space-where-people-want-to-live-at-least/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/yes-just-pass-me-my-leg-will-you-it-s-on-top-of-the-wardrobe-where-he/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/every-second-the-universe-divides-into-possibilities-and-most-of/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [You are a pool of clear water where the light plays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/you-are-a-pool-of-clear-water-where-the-light-plays/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/it-s-the-cliches-that-cause-the-trouble-a-precise-emotion-seeks-a/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/what-would-it-have-meant-to-be-happy-what-would-it-have-meant-if/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/mrs-ratlow-was-a-widow-and-she-was-head-of-english-but-she-still-did/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [“I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-shall-have-nowt-to-talk-to-now-the-baby-is-boiled/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/what-art-does-is-to-coax-us-away-from-the-mechanical-and-towards-the/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/happy-valentines-day-to-those-who-have-found-love-in-whatever-shape/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/it-took-me-a-long-time-to-realise-that-there-are-two-kinds-of-writing/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/a-curse-on-this-game-how-can-you-stick-at-a-game-when-the-rules-keep/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

> [“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/he-turned-away-and-i-turned-to-him-in-vivid-heat-to-look-on-the-sun/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-ordinary/jeanette-winterson/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 Life Ordinary Quotes By Jeanette Winterson",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jeanette Winterson"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-do-not-accept-that-life-has-an-ordinary-shape-or-that-there-is/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/jeanette-winterson-166_accepting_i-do-not-accept-that-life-has-an-ordinar_1370454.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/jeanette-winterson-166_accepting_i-do-not-accept-that-life-has-an-ordinar_1370454.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/jeanette-winterson-166_accepting_i-do-not-accept-that-life-has-an-ordinar_1370454.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We…” — Jeanette Winterson",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it is wonder, often it is horror. Only in the living of it does life seem ordinary. In the telling of it we find ourselves strangers among the strange.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jeanette Winterson"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/life-we-imagine-is-familiar-enough-until-we-begin-to-tell-it-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/jeanette-winterson-166_life_life-we-imagine-is-familiar-enough-until_1443689.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/jeanette-winterson-166_life_life-we-imagine-is-familiar-enough-until_1443689.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/jeanette-winterson-166_life_life-we-imagine-is-familiar-enough-until_1443689.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their…” — Jeanette Winterson",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-ordinary/jeanette-winterson/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-ordinary/jeanette-winterson/",
            "name": "Life Ordinary Quotes by Jeanette Winterson",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-ordinary/jeanette-winterson/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/jeanette-winterson-166_accepting_i-do-not-accept-that-life-has-an-ordinar_1370454.png"
            },
            "description": "2 Life Ordinary quotes by Jeanette Winterson. Plus more from Jeanette Winterson and more Life Ordinary sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-ordinary/jeanette-winterson/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-ordinary/jeanette-winterson/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Life Ordinary",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-ordinary/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Jeanette Winterson",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-ordinary/jeanette-winterson/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```