All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than… Called
- Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a… Always Say
- What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? Finding
- I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love… Able
- I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end. All
- Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will… Always Make
- In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… Air
- The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. Based
- …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world. Frame
- Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and… Already Dead
- When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in. Feeling
- Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out. Church
- Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to… Buy
- …I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. Attempt
- I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. Choice
- I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that… Broken
- What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to… Among
- I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… All
- You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things… From
- do it from the heart or not at all. All
- It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between. Inspirational
- What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for… Adults
- Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for… Beauty
- There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies Art
- live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the… Beacon