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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

Jeanette Winterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 27, 1959

Topics

Women Men Think Relationships Well

Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales.

Money Help Ripple Sales Economy Own

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

Great People Writing Book Believe

I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'

Book Go Without Anywhere Wake James

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

Age Impossible Isolation Short Just

Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just flows for me. It's as simple as drinking water and having food, so definitely, music is one of the main purposes of my life.

Life Music Water Food Simple Effort

Any position they want me to play, I'll be there.

Asdrubal Cabrera

Me Play Want Position Any

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Achieve Punishment Same Pointless

The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed in standard economic theory.

Economics Lesson Understand Need

I was not necessarily the best student. I was not necessarily the favourite kid. I wasn't necessarily the most responsible or the most ambitious, and suddenly, when you get given celebrity, you get anointed with all these lovely qualities that you don't have, necessarily, but everyone assumes you must because you're successful.

Best You Student Celebrity Kid Get

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

Relationship Trust Yourself Think

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Home Daughter Day Me Door Run

The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

Power World Small Wealth Lesson

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