Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

  Jeanette Winterson

  God, Mother, Buddhist

• Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Book, Fall

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.36, Random House

• Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Art, Thinking

• There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Children, Father

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Weight”, Canongate Books

• Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Book, Too Late

• 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.

• Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Art, Thinking

• I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Sex, Book

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.38, Random House

• When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Father, Wealth

  2000 The. Power Book.

• The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Sex, Boys

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