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
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 Behinds 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
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. — Fay Weldon Believe Copy Share Image
“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be… — Fay Weldon Book 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 Marriage Copy Share Image
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. — Fay Weldon Doom 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 Chocolate cake Copy Share Image
“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who… — Fay Weldon Gender Copy Share Image
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? — Fay Weldon Love 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
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear… — Fay Weldon Caught 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 Be careful Copy Share Image
Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity.… — Fay Weldon Ability 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 Freedom Copy Share Image
Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out. — Fay Weldon Arranged marriage 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
“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
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens. — Fay Weldon Happens Copy Share Image
“She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.” — Fay Weldon Sweet tea Copy Share Image
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is… — Fay Weldon Activity Copy Share Image
