"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you." ― Jeanette Winterson Topic(s): Change More From Jeanette Winterson "However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience." "Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement." "I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people." More In Change "Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."― William Arthur Ward "One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled."― Charles de Lint "Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."― Plato