Famous Quotes

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

Jeanette Winterson on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Jeanette Winterson

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

• "Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."

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

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

• "I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written."