I don't see how it's equitable. We're putting more money into schools already completed when other schools aren't getting any.


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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is her...
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up m...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world.
JEANETTE CORON
When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON
I'm not a quitter.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The wider we read the freer we become.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Time is not constant and one minute is not the same length as another.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
That thing you’re afraid of? That label you shy away from? That word that seems too bold? That aud...
JEANETTE LEBLANC
Don't you think it's strange that life, described
as so rich and full, a camel-trail of advent...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new ...
JEANETTE MICHELLE
Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver...
History is a collection of found objects washed up ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hangi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
History is a madman's museum.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting ol...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
moss that is concentrating on being green.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I kissed her and forgot death.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
There’s a planet called Echo. It doesn’t exist. It’s like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not displ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON