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About Jeanette Winterson
English author
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. She is known for her fiction, especially her debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical story about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Her later novels often explore gender and sexual identity, and her more recent work turns to the relationship between people and technology. Her books have been translated into nearly 20 languages, and she also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
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Sympathy: more sayings
- “In an old family albumEver again you return, Melancholy,O meekness of the solitary soul.A golden day glows an…”Georg Trakl
- “Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply b…”Richelle E. Goodrich
- “JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nix…”David Pietrusza
Explore Kindness
- “I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but t…”Diane Wakoski
- “I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.”Tom Shadyac
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Books by Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1991
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
2012
Weight
2006
The passion
1989
The stone gods
2007