Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

Jeanette Winterson's Popular Quotes

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.

- Jeanette Winterson

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.

- Jeanette Winterson

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don'…

- Jeanette Winterson

Life was a pre-death experience.

- Jeanette Winterson

Do it from the heart or not at all.

- Jeanette Winterson

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents,…

- Jeanette Winterson

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

- Jeanette Winterson

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

- Jeanette Winterson

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

- Jeanette Winterson