“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.” — 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
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. — 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
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. — Fay Weldon Beauty 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
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did. — Fay Weldon Fashion Copy Share Image
“To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the… — Fay Weldon Excuses Copy Share Image
Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to… — Fay Weldon Affair Copy Share Image
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are.… — Fay Weldon Envy Copy Share Image
I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your… — Fay Weldon Book 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 Body 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 Marriage Copy Share Image
All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done… — Fay Weldon Children Copy Share Image
I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have… — Fay Weldon 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
“She described how Camus’s aphorism “One must imagine Sisyphus happy” helps her fight back against unproductive feelings of meaninglessness. If we consider,… — 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 Husbands Copy Share Image
“Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Pity me'--the unspoken words upon a nation's lips--'because I am indeed pitiable. I have been deprived of freedom--yes, of course, all that.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Absolutely,' she said. 'The more you pay attention to the body, the less attention you've got left to pay the soul. I… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
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 Image
“The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffer everything.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? — Fay Weldon Love Copy Share Image
memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. — Fay Weldon Memories Copy Share Image
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind. — Fay Weldon Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.” — 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. — Fay Weldon Doom 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 Children Copy Share Image
“I'd have apple pie. You break through the crust and it's juicy underneath.” — Fay Weldon Apple pie Copy Share Image
“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time. — Fay Weldon Desire Copy Share Image
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide. — Fay Weldon Acceptance 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
