No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the… — Fay Weldon Able 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
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 Hate 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
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
I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next. — Fay Weldon Cynical 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
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting… — Fay Weldon Blackberries 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
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
A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed. — Fay Weldon Realizing 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
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. — Fay Weldon Needs 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
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
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside… — Fay Weldon Desire Copy Share Image
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men,… — Fay Weldon Different 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
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late. — Fay Weldon Acquire Copy Share Image
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate. — Fay Weldon Believe 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
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Break 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
“Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
