Jeanette Winterson Quotes


She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.


Citations

Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body. Jonathan Cape, 1992.

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Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson
  • Born: August 27, 1959
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Writer, Journalist, Professor At

Jeanette Winterson CBE is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity, with later novels also exploring the relationship between humans and technology. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.