Jeanette Winterson

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Naked is the best disguise. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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