“ I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking. Jeanette Winterson
“ When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. Jeanette Winterson
“ Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? Jeanette Winterson
“ Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. Jeanette Winterson
“ I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them. Jeanette Winterson
“ What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?How much of recollection is invention?Whose invention? Jeanette Winterson
“ To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist. Jeanette Winterson
“ My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were in a particular place, you expected to see particular things. Sheep… Jeanette Winterson
“ The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking. Jeanette Winterson
“ I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...I had no idea that you could like your parents or that they could love you… Jeanette Winterson
“ Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries. Jeanette Winterson
“ Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better than? Who are we better than? Examine this statement:… Jeanette Winterson
“ What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the thin… Jeanette Winterson
“ Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun. Jeanette Winterson
“ Mrs. Winterson didn't want her body resurrected because she had never, ever loved it, not even for a single minute of a single day But although she believed in End Time, she felt that the bodily resur… Jeanette Winterson
“ Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that peddles solutions, whether it’s solutions to those extra… Jeanette Winterson
