Jeanette Winterson Quote

Listen, we are human beings. Listen, we are inclined to love. Love is there, but we need to be taught how. We want to stand upright, we want to walk, but someone needs to hold our hand and balance us a bit, and guide us a bit, and scoop us up when we fall.Listen, we fall. Love is there but we have to learn it—and its shapes and its possibilities. I taught myself how to stand on my own two feet, but I could not teach myself how to love.We have a capacity for language. We have a capacity for love. We need other people to release those capacities.

Jeanette Winterson

Listen, we are human beings. Listen, we are inclined to love. Love is there, but we need to be taught how. We want to stand upright, we want to walk, but someone needs to hold our hand and balance us a bit, and guide us a bit, and scoop us up when we fall.Listen, we fall. Love is there but we have to learn it—and its shapes and its possibilities. I taught myself how to stand on my own two feet, but I could not teach myself how to love.We have a capacity for language. We have a capacity for love. We need other people to release those capacities.

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About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is an English author.
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.