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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

Jeanette Winterson

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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
Difficult
Wanted
Children
Never
Would
Men
Love
Deeply

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