"In the Eighties, lesbians who wrote books were OK, but lesbians who stole wives were not.", Page in the Life: Jeanette Winterson, The Telegraph, läst 21 juni 2017
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Originalcitat: "It was an extraordinary self-awakening, especially if you have a romantic temperament, as I do." Teenage sex was "so exciting, and without the baggage that comes later. It was connected with animal desire, which girls lose quickly. They're just as likely to want sex for its own sake but get tricked out of it.", "Redemption songs", The Guardian, läst 13 juni 2017
Originalcitat: "It got all dressed up as lesbian prostitution, which it really wasn't. It was simply to do with a very strange and particular time which couldn't happen now, with ladies leading double lives. I was very young. They just wanted to buy me presents, and I needed cookware.", Interview: Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian, läst 21 juni 2017
Originalcitat: "I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked, it became clear they had never read a word by me.", Jeanette Winterson: I thought of suicide, The Guardian, läst 27 juni 2017
Originalcitat: "At college, I was told there were four great women novelists in the 19th century – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Not one of them led an enviable life – all of them had to sacrifice ludicrously in order to be writers. I wasn't prepared to do that.", Jeanette Winterson: I thought of suicide, The Guardian, läst 29 juni 2017
Originalcitat: "I found what [the poet Robert] Graves calls the shining space between dark and dark. It was something I visualised, that shining space. It seemed that I could just walk in that shining space and be there. And I did and then the darkness began to clear. The wound is always there and hurts but it's not festering.", Jeanette Winterson: I thought of suicide, The Guardian, läst 29 juni 2017
