For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.
Jeanette WintersonI wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette WintersonShe had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.
Jeanette WintersonWherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.
Jeanette Winterson