19 Notable Quotes By Jeanette Winterson That Throw Light On Gender Polarity

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Jeanette Winterson  

As your lover describes you, so you are.

You

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What you risk reveals what you value.

You

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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

I

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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

You Life Time I

Jeanette Winterson  

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

You I

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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

You Time

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Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

You Love Time Will

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I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Me Death Love Will I

Jeanette Winterson  

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

You Love Friends

Jeanette Winterson  

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

Life I

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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Never Time Will

Jeanette Winterson  

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Jeanette Winterson  

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it...

You Love Yourself

Jeanette Winterson  

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

You Me Together Time Like Will

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Why is the measure of love loss?

Love

Jeanette Winterson  

She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave

Me Love Like I

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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

Jeanette Winterson  

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?

Jeanette Winterson