Jeanette Winterson Quotes


I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.


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.