Jeanette Winterson Quote
1. Men are easy to please but are not pleased for long before some new novelty must delight them.2. Men are easy to make passionate but are unable to sustain it.3. Men are always seeking soft women but find their lives in ruins without strong women.4. Men must be occupied at all times otherwise they make mischief.5. Men deem themselves weighty and women light. Therefore it is simple to tie a stone round their necks and drown them should they become too troublesome.6. Men are best left in groups by themselves where they will entirely wear themselves out in drunkenness and competition. While this is taking place a woman may carry on with her own life unhindered.7. Men are never never to be trusted with what is closest to your heart, and if it is they who are closest to your heart, do not tell them.8. If a man asks you for money, do not give it to him.9. If you ask a man for money and he does not give it to you, sell his richest possession and leave at once.10. Your greatest strength is that every man believes he knows the sum and possibility of every woman.
1. Men are easy to please but are not pleased for long before some new novelty must delight them.2. Men are easy to make passionate but are unable to sustain it.3. Men are always seeking soft women but find their lives in ruins without strong women.4. Men must be occupied at all times otherwise they make mischief.5. Men deem themselves weighty and women light. Therefore it is simple to tie a stone round their necks and drown them should they become too troublesome.6. Men are best left in groups by themselves where they will entirely wear themselves out in drunkenness and competition. While this is taking place a woman may carry on with her own life unhindered.7. Men are never never to be trusted with what is closest to your heart, and if it is they who are closest to your heart, do not tell them.8. If a man asks you for money, do not give it to him.9. If you ask a man for money and he does not give it to you, sell his richest possession and leave at once.10. Your greatest strength is that every man believes he knows the sum and possibility of every woman.
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About Jeanette Winterson
Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing. She has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the St. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novels have been translated to almost 20 languages.