“If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late! — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate. I have no father. There's nothing unusual about that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than… — 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
