I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state? — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they? — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny… — 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
