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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

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

Jeanette Winterson

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jeanette Winterson
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Jeanette Winterson

I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Jeanette Winterson

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Jeanette Winterson

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Jeanette Winterson

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Jeanette Winterson

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Jeanette Winterson

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jeanette Winterson
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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

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Jeanette Winterson

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Jeanette Winterson

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