Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson, OBEis an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 August 1959
Jeanette Winterson quotes about
missionary want orlando
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
invisible familiar objects
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
peculiar capacity form
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
findings humiliating objects
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
tempted
I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
bridges metaphor possibility
A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
fairy-stories names magic
Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.
loving-someone wake-up chance
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
height depth strange
I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
naked disguise
Naked is the best disguise.
butterfly gun target
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
throat
Their throats were bare for God.
quests presence-of-love
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
honesty children mean
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.