Quote

I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.

Jeanette Winterson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Tells
Word
Purpose
Hate
Nothing
Inflame
Lesbian

More quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Image
It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations there are only sandbanks and shipwreck then another boat, another tide.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
Jeanette Winterson
Image
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
Their throats were bare for God.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
Jeanette Winterson
Image
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
Jeanette Winterson