Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson

And I guess that is the key – no one is ever going to lock me in or lock me out again. My door is open and I am the one who opens it.

She tells me I was never a secret – me – who thought via Mrs Winterson that everything had to be secret – books and lovers, real names, real lives. And then she wrote, ‘You were always wanted.’ Do you understand that, Jeanette? You were always wanted.