Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away at you. But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. And this is what I figured out on my own: Over the course of a lifetime, people change, but not as much as you'd think. Nobody really grows up.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.