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I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

Jeanette Winterson
Heart, Thinking, Feelings

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

Jeanette Winterson
People, Feelings
Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.

Jeanette Winterson
Feelings, Mind, Pathways
Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.187, Random House

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

Jeanette Winterson
Men, Interesting, Feelings
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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