"I was the place where you anchored. I……" — Jeanette Winterson
"I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands."
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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson has 419 quotes on this site.
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To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
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Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there…
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After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
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...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great…
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories…
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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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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly,…
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Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we…
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
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While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly…
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Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I…
— Unknown Author
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Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being…
— Gabrielle Reece
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Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you…
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I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree…
— Rachel Held Evans
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom…
— Alfred Nobel
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True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity,…
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Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives…
— Piero Ferrucci
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What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What…
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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they…
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