No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. — Fay Weldon Affliction Copy Share Image
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said. — Fay Weldon Expectations Copy Share Image
by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope. — Fay Weldon Expectations Copy Share Image
One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Autobiography Copy Share Image
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. — Fay Weldon Beauty Copy Share Image
“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Fiction Copy Share Image
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our… — 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
If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for… — Fay Weldon Hate 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 Child 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
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Book Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“The language of distinction ceases to be available; is no longer available. We must search CD Rom for meanings which once were… — Fay Weldon Language Copy Share Image
“Because lurking somewhere beneath the surface of your brain is a vision of loneliness, and it will be a terrible moment when… — Fay Weldon Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you're not going to change a thing like that in a… — 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 Amazing things Copy Share Image
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a… — Fay Weldon Children Copy Share Image
“It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.” — Fay Weldon Happiness 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
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning. — Fay Weldon Language Copy Share Image
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions. — Fay Weldon Abortion Copy Share Image
