Fay Weldon

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

— Fay Weldon

Men are irrelevant.

— Fay Weldon

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

— Fay Weldon

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

— Fay Weldon

“Getting two sentences together is exhilarating. It is heaven.”

— Fay Weldon

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

— Fay Weldon

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

— Fay Weldon

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon

“New lives always begin tomorrow, […] Never now.”

— Fay Weldon

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

— Fay Weldon

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of…

— Fay Weldon

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

“Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.”

— Fay Weldon

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

— Fay Weldon

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

— Fay Weldon

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

— Fay Weldon

“You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.”

— Fay Weldon

“During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank,…

— Fay Weldon

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was…

— Fay Weldon

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

“The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be…

— Fay Weldon

“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching…

— Fay Weldon

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

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the…

— Fay Weldon

“This is my home now. I like it. Nothing happens here. I know what to expect from one day to the next.…

— Fay Weldon

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting…

— Fay Weldon

“Are you sure you wouldn't like some toast, Phyllis? Toast is one of the triumphs of our civilisation. It must be made…

— Fay Weldon

“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

“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

Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and…

— Fay Weldon

“I am always concerned when people, finding out that I am a writer, apologise and say, “I’m not much of a reader…

— Fay Weldon

A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you…

— Fay Weldon

“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

I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and…

— Fay Weldon

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

— Fay Weldon

“She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.”

— Fay Weldon

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

— Fay Weldon

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

“Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it.”

— Fay Weldon

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

— Fay Weldon