Fay Weldon

Men are irrelevant.

— Fay Weldon

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

— Fay Weldon

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

— Fay Weldon

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

— Fay Weldon

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

— Fay Weldon

“Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it.”

— Fay Weldon

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

— Fay Weldon

“She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.”

— Fay Weldon

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

— Fay Weldon

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

— Fay Weldon

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

— Fay Weldon

“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.”

— Fay Weldon

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

“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

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

— Fay Weldon

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

— Fay Weldon

Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in…

— Fay Weldon

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day…

— Fay Weldon

To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our…

— Fay Weldon

Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much,…

— Fay Weldon

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature…

— Fay Weldon

For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however…

— Fay Weldon

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

“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching…

— Fay Weldon

“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

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

“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

Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny…

— Fay Weldon

“Because lurking somewhere beneath the surface of your brain is a vision of loneliness, and it will be a terrible moment when…

— Fay Weldon

“The language of distinction ceases to be available; is no longer available. We must search CD Rom for meanings which once were…

— Fay Weldon

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the…

— Fay Weldon

I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and…

— Fay Weldon

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

— Fay Weldon

“New lives always begin tomorrow, […] Never now.”

— Fay Weldon

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

— Fay Weldon

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

— Fay Weldon

“Getting two sentences together is exhilarating. It is heaven.”

— Fay Weldon