So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions. — Fay Weldon Abortion Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching… — Fay Weldon Death 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
I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run… — Fay Weldon Artificial 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
“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 Right thing 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
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
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest. — Fay Weldon Application Copy Share Image
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them. — Fay Weldon Disappointed Copy Share Image
I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books. — Fay Weldon Book 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
“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
“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
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still… — Fay Weldon Able 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
“The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be… — Fay Weldon Endangered species 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
“Are you sure you wouldn't like some toast, Phyllis? Toast is one of the triumphs of our civilisation. It must be made… — Fay Weldon 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
