Love Quote by Jeanette Winterson

Winterson doesn’t romanticize vulnerability as a decorative virtue; she frames it as a structural flaw you willingly install. Calling it a "weak point" borrows the language of engineering or combat: there’s a breach in the wall, a predictable spot an enemy - or fate, or even the beloved - can strike. The bluntness matters. It resists the cultural script that treats love as self-improvement or empowerment. For Winterson, love is exposure, and exposure is risk with a name and an address.

The phrasing "open, vulnerable place" is tactile and bodily, less a mood than an anatomy. She suggests that pain isn’t an accident of loving badly; it’s baked into the design of loving at all. That’s the subtext: you can’t optimize the heart the way you optimize a life. If you want the connection, you accept the liability. The adverb "always" is the knife twist, rejecting the fantasy that maturity, good choices, or cynicism will eventually make you immune.

Contextually, this tracks with Winterson’s larger project as a novelist: dismantling tidy binaries between romance and independence, desire and selfhood. "Love, in all its aspects" widens the charge beyond eros - it includes devotion, attachment, obsession, tenderness, grief. The final clause, "opens the self so fully", is almost a warning disguised as awe. Love isn’t just something you feel; it’s something that reorganizes your boundaries. The cost isn’t incidental. It’s the point.