{"author":"Jeanette Winterson","author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson","total_quotes":288,"quotes":[{"text":"We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["disappointment","healing","love","oneness","pain"],"id":1733,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["gender","lesbian","tomboy"],"id":1880,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["apocalypse","humanity","inspirational","survival"],"id":2204,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS).","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["beginings","broken","change"],"id":12695,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["curious","you","danger "],"id":13223,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["jeanette-winterson","kiss","love","the-passion"],"id":15707,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["progress","progressive-politics"],"id":15739,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"I did not realise that when money becomes the core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life or the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["community","life","money","money","society","thatcherism"],"id":15796,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["life","living"],"id":16189,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["pain"],"id":16591,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":288,"pages":29,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}