"The baby explodes into an unknown world that……" — Jeanette Winterson
"The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing."
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Jeanette Winterson
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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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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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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to…
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I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life.…
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Gay adoption is discrimination against children
— Pope Francis
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Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our…
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond…
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