I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
Jeanette Winterson

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

I never cared about money.
Jeanette Winterson

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
Jeanette Winterson

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Jeanette Winterson

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

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
Jeanette Winterson

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Jeanette Winterson

I'm not a quitter.
Jeanette Winterson

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
Jeanette Winterson

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
Jeanette Winterson

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
Jeanette Winterson

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Jeanette Winterson

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
Jeanette Winterson

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Jeanette Winterson