“Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon Elements Copy Share Image
one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of… — Fay Weldon Betrayal Copy Share Image
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. — Fay Weldon Committees Copy Share Image
One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off. — Fay Weldon Cutting Copy Share Image
“During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank,… — Fay Weldon Books Copy Share Image
“You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.” — Fay Weldon Beauty 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
I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped,… — Fay Weldon Cases 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
Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you… — Fay Weldon Clothes 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
“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
“I just want not to be hurt by him. I want it to be like it was when I was a child,… — Fay Weldon Children Copy Share Image
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe… — Fay Weldon Circles Copy Share Image
She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious… — Fay Weldon Brotherhood 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 Husbands 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 Camus Aphorism 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
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
I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have… — Fay Weldon Can not Copy Share Image
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a… — Fay Weldon Children Copy Share Image
“My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.” — Fay Weldon Esther Copy Share Image
Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion. — Fay Weldon Believe Copy Share Image
I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they? — Fay Weldon Feedback Copy Share Image
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time. — Fay Weldon Desire 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
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
“Guilt is to the soul as pain is to the body, a warning that harm is being done.” — Fay Weldon Guilt Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Ifs Copy Share Image
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told… — Fay Weldon Knows Copy Share Image
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little… — Fay Weldon Difficult Copy Share Image
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide. — Fay Weldon Acceptance Copy Share Image
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. — Fay Weldon Feminism Copy Share Image
“Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.” — Fay Weldon Austen Copy Share Image
“I'd have apple pie. You break through the crust and it's juicy underneath.” — Fay Weldon Apple pie 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
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. — Fay Weldon Doom Copy Share Image
“The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffer everything.” — Fay Weldon Suffer 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
