Jeanette Winterson Quotes

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

I'm getting to use my platform as the Bachelorette - on my season - to really make change through my experience.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.