Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She broadcasts...
—Jeanette Winterson in Written on the Body
I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Don't be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.
—Rebecca Maizel in Infinite Days