Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Light, Long

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.3, Canongate Books

• 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

• She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Choices, Parent

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2012.

• Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Unconditional Love, Love Is

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