"It is helpful for a woman artist not…" — Jeanette Winterson

"It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband."

— Jeanette Winterson

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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson has 419 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there…
After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great…
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories…
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly,…
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we…
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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