one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I want but it's not this. I don't want to be this person, I don't want to be… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“I do use husbands a bit (in books). It's what writers of this kind do, actually. I am quite careful to try… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“What happens now is that if some unfortunate man goes to bed with some woman, overnight there's a divorce. He thinks and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring up their… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who in peacetime… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you're not going to change a thing like that in a hurry. Look… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon Copy Share
