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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.
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I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
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