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Own Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
- What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of…
- What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
- I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than…
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards…
- The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of…
- Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know…
- Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
- That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
- i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of…
- The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so…
- We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being…
- You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining…
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
- In this life, you have to be your own hero.
- In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you…
- He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them…
- Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name…
- I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov