Fay Weldon quotes

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens. (Fay Weldon)
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Fay Weldon
The New Women I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . . They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be they are what I worked for them to be and now I see them, I hate them.
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I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on. (Fay Weldon)
Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.
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Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.
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guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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Go to work on an egg.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. (Fay Weldon)
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Men are irrelevant.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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