1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It’s a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it’s a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

History is a madman’s museum.

I want to get to the end and feel that I’ve done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It’s not about fame and it’s not about me. It’s about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.

Life cannot be calculated. That’s the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation – it is part of the equation.

It’s the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should I call it love?

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else’s.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn’t choosing; I didn’t think I had to.

Why doesn’t every mother believer her child can change the world? The child can. This is the joke. Here we are still looking for a saviour and hundreds are being born every second. Look at it, this tiny capsule of new life, indifferent to your prejudices, your miseries, unmindful of the world already made. Make it again? They could if we let them, but we make sure they grow up just like us, fearful like us. Don’t let them know the potential that they are.