"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement." ― Jeanette Winterson Topic(s): Freedom 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." "I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn’t choosing; I didn’t think I had to." "If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you." More In Freedom "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."― Mother Teresa "Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow."― Monica Edwards "In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn’t know art, just as it doesn’t know freedom, just as it doesn’t know goodness."― Ivan Turgenev