Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate. — Fay Weldon Believe Copy Share Image
“Absolutely,' she said. 'The more you pay attention to the body, the less attention you've got left to pay the soul. I… — Fay Weldon Pay attention Copy Share Image
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did. — Fay Weldon Fashion 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
memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. — Fay Weldon Memories Copy Share Image
Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. — Fay Weldon Agree Copy Share Image
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain. — Fay Weldon All things Copy Share Image
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? — Fay Weldon Love Copy Share Image
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and… — Fay Weldon Children 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
All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done… — Fay Weldon Children Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I want but it's not this. I don't want to be this person, I don't want to be… — Fay Weldon Marriage Copy Share Image
A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women… — Fay Weldon Body 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
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are.… — Fay Weldon Envy 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
Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to… — Fay Weldon Affair 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 Excuses Copy Share Image
If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays… — Fay Weldon Hands Copy Share Image
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking… — Fay Weldon Conscious Copy Share Image
