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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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