1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining of my coat. I take them out like a jewel thief when no-one's watching. They haven't faded. Nothing about you has faded. You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which?

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?