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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

I'm not a quitter.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

I never cared about money.

Jeanette Winterson