I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. She was raised to be a missionary by her extremely controlling and zealous mother.

The world she has known, the world of the church, shuns such behaviour. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process it concerns essences, and it means power. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is a compelling novel about a young woman dealing with the pressures of conformity in a world that demands she be something she is not. Winterson claims the story isnt autobiography in the real sense. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 15 Books Every Young Gay Woman. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup.Īs it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. “But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God.

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