Jeanette Winterson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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?”

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

“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.”

“I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.”

“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.”

“I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.”

“Naked is the best disguise.”

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

“I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.”

“With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.”