Jeanette Winterson Quotes

• In this life you have to be your own hero.

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• When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

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• I don’t hate men, I just wish they’d try harder. They all want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That’s not the kind of heroism they enjoy.

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• I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.

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• A child can’t be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to give him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren’t bound to anything.

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• I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames?

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• Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

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• I asked why he was a priest and he said that if you have to work for anybody an absentee boss is best.

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• The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

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• It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

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• It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

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• Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

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• There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what’s dead. It won’t complain.

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• Eating was easy. Thinking was hard.

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• In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

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• Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.

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• Reading’s not a luxury, art’s not a luxury. It’s about your soul, and it’s about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury.

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• Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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• I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

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• Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

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Jeanette Winterson (93)

Birth:	27th August, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England. She is an English novelist. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. She is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, which focuses on LGBT issues. She has written several novels include: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Costa First Novel Award), The Passion (John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body (Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction), Art and Lies, Gut Symmetries, Lighthousekeeping, and The Stone Gods.

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