"Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they……" — Jeanette Winterson
"Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent."
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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson has 419 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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- Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
- I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
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- The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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More Always Unfinished Quotes
This quote is filed under Always Unfinished Quotes, one of 3 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
- Liberty is always unfinished business — Havelock Ellis
- American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished. — John F. Kennedy