Dec 62012
Oranges…
Reflect No CommentsI managed to see a stunning programme on the writer Jeanette Winterson this week.
The documentary was jam packed with interesting quotes and ideas – sound bites don’t do them justice…
– ‘Our enthusiasm often tells us where we are lacking’
– She talked powerfully of her ‘dark night of the soul’ when she tried suicide in 2008
– She talked of her life purpose for women writers to get ‘their share’
– She argued how we need writing to help us ‘grapple with the size of our own feelings’
– She summarised the ‘big endings in life’ (and literature) of revenge, tragedy, forgiveness
– She talked of ‘over-estimation of the object’ and the projection we make onto things as a defence
