Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“She had been a career woman all her life. She noted there was no such thing as a career man. She had… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' 'And men never do,' I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
