“ 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
