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
quests presence-of-love
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
love-is games play
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
falling-in-love world probability
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
children unconditional-love love-is
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
hurt memories love-is
Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.
love-you fire risk
The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.
love-is temptation desire
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
love valentines-day giving-up
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it...
love focus desire
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.
love book body
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
love hurt self
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
passion first-love lust
Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals
falling-in-love firsts logical
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.
love way pay
Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.