I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Jeanette WintersonI 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.
Jeanette WintersonOur own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.
Jeanette WintersonWhen we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.
Jeanette WintersonEven death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?
Jeanette Winterson