Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Emotional, Thinking, Doors

• For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Clouds

• No emotion is the final one.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Finals, Emotion

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Thinking, Feelings

• It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Expression, Causes, Emotion

• For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving, Emotion, Language

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