Parenting Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“My mother has often been labelled as strange but that’s because she says things that people can’t possibly believe. Mostly she’s right.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“My mother's eyes were like cold stars. She belonged in a different sky.”

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

“St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than…

— 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

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

— 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

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of…

— Jeanette Winterson

“My mother told stories - of their life in the war and how she'd played the accordion in the air-raid shelter and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It's so crude' complained her mother, who believed in Good Taste the way Sunday worshipers believed in the Immaculate Conception. She wasn't…

— 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

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“My mother is very like William Blake, she has visions and dreams and she cannot always distinguish a flea's head from a…

— Jeanette Winterson

The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

“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

St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than…

— Jeanette Winterson

“And I suppose the saddest thing for me, thinking about Oranges , is that I wrote a story I could live with.…

— 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

“My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage slowly, with his…

— Jeanette Winterson

“When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be…

— Jeanette Winterson

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule,…

— 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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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