Jeanette Winterson

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. Or the people who found Atlantis. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#courage #feminism #courage

What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #love #life

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#art

Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#art

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#family #faults #love #parents #family

The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#living #life

I love her." "Then you do not love the Lord." "Yes, I love both of them." "You cannot." "I do. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love

Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#passion #love

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#philosophy #love

They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#men #men