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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    She laughed. "What about your wings?" she said. "How can you forget those when the stumps are still deep in your shoulder-blades?"I didn't say anything. In the Bible only the angels have wings; the rest of us have to wait to be rescued.
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    The future is intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable. She is not who she thought she was.
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    1. Men are easy to please but are not pleased for long before some new novelty must delight them.2. Men are easy to make passionate but are unable to sustain it.3. Men are always seeking soft women but find their lives in ruins without strong women.4. Men must be occupied at all times otherwise they make mischief.5. Men deem themselves weighty and women light. Therefore it is simple to tie a stone round their necks and drown them should they become too troublesome.6. Men are best left in groups by themselves where they will entirely wear themselves out in drunkenness and competition. While this is taking place a woman may carry on with her own life unhindered.7. Men are never never to be trusted with what is closest to your heart, and if it is they who are closest to your heart, do not tell them.8. If a man asks you for money, do not give it to him.9. If you ask a man for money and he does not give it to you, sell his richest possession and leave at once.10. Your greatest strength is that every man believes he knows the sum and possibility of every woman.
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    People will believe anything.Except, it seems, the truth.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    If you're a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk about yourself all the time, and nobody minds. Heroes are immune. They have wide shoulders and plenty of hair and wherever they go a crowd gathers. Mostly they enjoy the company of other men, although attractive women are part of their reward.
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    Everyone remembers things which never happened. And it is common knowledge that people often forget things which did. Either we are all fantasists and liars or the past has nothing definite in it.
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    Running away from uncertainty and confusion but most of all running away from myself. I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.
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  9. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    My own heart, like this wild place, has never been visited, and I do not know whether it could sustain life.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    I noticed that women have a private language. A language not dependent on the constructions of men but structured by signs and expressions, and that uses ordinary words as code-words meaning something other.
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    Viitorul, prezentul și trecutul nu există decât în mintea noastră, iar de la depărtare marginile li se micșorează și li se încețoșează precum granițele unor țări dușmane, văzute dintr-un oras plutitor, tocmai de pe boltă.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    ... I discovered from my time in the brother that men's members, if bitten off or otherwise severed, do not grow again. This seems a great mistake on the part of nature, since men are so careless with their members and will put them anywhere without thinking.
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