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
Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. — Fay Weldon Agree 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
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much,… — Fay Weldon All things Copy Share Image
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning. — Fay Weldon Language Copy Share Image
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon Books 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
Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and… — Fay Weldon Afternoon 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
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. — Fay Weldon Committees Copy Share Image
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 Baby Copy Share Image
“My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.” — Fay Weldon Happiness 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
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Fiction 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
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. — Fay Weldon Beauty Copy Share Image
“The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffer everything.” — Fay Weldon Suffering 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
I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they? — Fay Weldon Feedback Copy Share Image
