Jeanette Winterson — British Novelist born on August 27, 1959,

Jeanette Winterson, OBE is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing... (wikipedia)

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
What you risk reveals what you value.