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“I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

tags: emotions, feelings, head-and-heart

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“Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

tags: creativity, health, madness

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“I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories

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“I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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“I knew clearly that I could not rebuild my life or put it back together in any way. I had no idea what might lie on the other side of this place. I only knew that the before-world was gone forever.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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