“If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. — 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
“Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Reportage is violence. Violence to the spirit. Violence to the emotional sympathy that should quicken in you and me when face to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of… — 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
