1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

If people aren’t educated, they can’t question. If they can’t question, they can’t change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don’t you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

You said, ‘I love you.’ Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, ‘Tristan.’ I answered you: ‘Isolde.’ Isolde. The world became a word.

You can change everything about yourself – your name, your home, your skin color, your gender, even your parents, your private history – but you can’t change the time you were born in, or what it is you will have to live through.

Many people feel their outer self isn’t the whole self.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there.

It’s not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t.