Jeanette Winterson Quote

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...

His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially...

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown up. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of b...

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.