--- title: "1 Generally Ignored Quotes By Fay Weldon" description: "1 Generally Ignored quotes by Fay Weldon. Plus more from Fay Weldon and more Generally Ignored sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/fay-weldon-3097_doom_the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-ar_127672.png" --- > [The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-are-generally-ignored-and/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/fay-weldon-3097_doom_the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-ar_127672.png) ## More by Fay Weldon > [Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/nowadays-most-people-wear-black-most-of-the-time-anyway-go-to-a/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/my-experience-of-men-in-cars-has-always-been-that-if-you-don-t-want/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/letters-crossing-in-the-post-unfamiliar-tunes-heard-three-times-in/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [“If that was dying, I don't want to do it again.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/if-that-was-dying-i-don-t-want-to-do-it-again/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/one-sort-of-believes-in-recycling-but-one-believes-in-it-as-a-kind-of/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/truly-books-are-wonderful-things-to-sit-alone-in-a-room-and-laugh-and/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/not-satisfied-with-what-he-s-got-is-that-it-that-s-husbands-all-over/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/food-drink-sleep-books-they-are-all-drugs/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-are-generally-ignored-and/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/there-is-nothing-she-would-think-more-delicious-that-the-icing-of/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who in peacetime…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/a-brave-little-woman-said-the-vicar-so-many-of-our-women-are-now-left/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/how-has-anyone-ever-understood-anyone-except-through-love-which-is/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/women-have-always-tried-to-make-themselves-attractive-to-men-and-you/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/one-friend-dies-and-we-remain-indifferent-another-dies-perhaps-less/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) > [One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/one-must-be-careful-with-words-words-turn-probabilities-into-facts/) [Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/generally-ignored/fay-weldon/#itemlist", "name": "1 Generally Ignored Quotes By Fay Weldon", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fay Weldon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-are-generally-ignored-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/fay-weldon-3097_doom_the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-ar_127672.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/fay-weldon-3097_doom_the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-ar_127672.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/fay-weldon-3097_doom_the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-ar_127672.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.” — Fay Weldon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/generally-ignored/fay-weldon/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/generally-ignored/fay-weldon/", "name": "Generally Ignored Quotes by Fay Weldon", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/generally-ignored/fay-weldon/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/fay-weldon-3097_doom_the-prophets-of-doom-in-my-experience-ar_127672.png" }, "description": "1 Generally Ignored quotes by Fay Weldon. 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