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Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
– Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
– Jeanette Winterson
We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.
– Jeanette Winterson
What you risk reveals what you value.
– Jeanette Winterson
You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
– Jeanette Winterson
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
– Jeanette Winterson
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
– Jeanette Winterson
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
– Jeanette Winterson
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
– Jeanette Winterson
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
– Jeanette Winterson
I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
– Jeanette Winterson
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
– Jeanette Winterson
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.
– Jeanette Winterson
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
– Jeanette Winterson
Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
– Jeanette Winterson
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
– Jeanette Winterson