


"if you didn't stand up for yourself in my household you were finished." - Winterson "it's not the new, its the shock of the familiar, arranged so that we can actually see it." - Winterson "language is there - we are in danger of losing its power." - Winterson "Art is a place where we have to tell the truth." - Winterson "lesbian novels of development have historically offered three alternative resolutions: accommodation to, exile and escape from the patriarchal status quo." - Bonnie Zimmerman "Winterson may be seen to be answering Woolf's famous call for woman-centred texts in which 'hetrosexual masculinity' is not the major term." - Morian "postmodernist fiction's use of irony and paradox.
