Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless.

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. That is why they are unfit for romantic love. There are exceptions and I hope they are happy.