Jeanette Winterson

St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#religion

What you risk reveals what you value. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#risk #value #you

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#irrelevant #lives #our #our lives #shall

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#luminous #me #risk #thing #you

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#create #fiction #invented #language #need

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#different #ever #every #get #go

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#extinct #interest #lasts #over #speaks

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#grail #heart #holy #holy grail #i

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #inflame #lesbian #nothing #only

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#enough #life #people #person #room