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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.
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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
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I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
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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.
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
Jeanette Winterson
Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.
Jeanette Winterson
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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