"I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write."
-Jeanette Winterson
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"I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.“
-Jeanette Winterson
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"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
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"You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?"
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"I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed."
-Jeanette Winterson
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"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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