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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.
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When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
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Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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Life was a pre-death experience.
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Do you fall in love often? Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.
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Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
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I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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