Jeanette Winterson Quotes

There are really only two options - you can feel things, or you can shut down. But, once you decide to feel things, you don't get to pick and choose what you feel.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

I've always been a very sensitive person, and people tell me that if I'm in a certain mood, and I go into a room, my mood will permeate the room. It's not on purpose - I'd rather be invisible in those moments - but I'm really bad at faking how I feel.

The way I look at it, I'm more of a man because I'm in touch with my emotions. I think people that deny their emotions are pretty weak individuals, if you want my honest opinion.

Showing your emotions is not a weakness.

I am an emotional person, but I am not embarrassed by that.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.