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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Jeanette Winterson

Marriage

Excitement

Freedom

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

Jeanette Winterson

Books

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

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

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

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

I never cared about money.

Jeanette Winterson

Money

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

Jeanette Winterson

Play

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Jeanette Winterson

Change

Consciousness

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

Jeanette Winterson

Truth

Homosexuality