“She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.” — Fay Weldon Sweet tea Copy Share Image
I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next. — Fay Weldon Cynical 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 Acquire 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
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Fiction Copy Share Image
“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.” — Fay Weldon Agency Copy Share Image
Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away. — Fay Weldon Get away Copy Share Image
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. — Fay Weldon Increased 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 All things 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 All things 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 Done 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 Dies 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 Children 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 Doe 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… — Fay Weldon Black Copy Share Image
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 Baby Copy Share Image
“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 Children 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
I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and… — Fay Weldon Clouds 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 Beam 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
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
Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out. — Fay Weldon Arranged marriage Copy Share Image
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound. — Fay Weldon Bounds Copy Share Image
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