Jeanette Winterson Quotes

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too.

There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.