Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving Up, Two, Balance

• Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Valentines Day, Giving Up

• When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Funny, Uplifting, Running

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Giving, Asking

• I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Giving, Sun

  Jeanette Winterson (2004). “Lighthousekeeping”, Fourth Estate (GB)

• If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving Up, Demon, Found

  Jeanette Winterson (1985). “Oranges are Not the Only Fruit”

• St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I would be a priest and saved to give me an education while my friends plaited rope and trailed after the plough. I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Passion, Heart

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

• One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Hate, War

• 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

• When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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