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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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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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We are all historians in our small way.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
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A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.
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