Jeanette Winterson Quotes - Page 8

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• That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Literature, Language

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• It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Husband, Artist, Helpful

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Kids, Journey, Self

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• In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Space, Another Chance, Shapes

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• Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Block, Writing

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• What you eat is the most political thing you do every day

  Jeanette Winterson

  Political

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• Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Taken, Journey, Lines

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.2, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, World, Form

  Jeanette Winterson (2012). “The Daylight Gate”, p.63, Random House

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• He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Honesty, Mean

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Ambition, Boys

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

  Jeanette Winterson

  God, Tempted

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• Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Enchantment, Spells

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.51, Random House

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• I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Cat, Garden

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• Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

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  Invisible, Familiar, Objects

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.196, Random House

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• What I want does exist if I dare to find it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Doe, Want, Dare

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• I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Thinking, Men

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• When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.

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  Girl, Heart, Cutting

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• She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Made, Neglected

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Only the impossible is worth the effort.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Effort, Impossible

  Jeanette Winterson (2016). “Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days”, p.238, Random House

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• There are voices and they must be heard.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Voice, Heard

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• Trust your creativity.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Creativity

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• Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Falling In Love, Firsts, Logical

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “The Passion”, p.145, Random House

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• Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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  Book, Reading, Doors

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• Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Children

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Laughter, Fear, Passion

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.155, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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