Fay Weldon Quotes

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• If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
• There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
• Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
• I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
• 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, she likes to…
• So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
• The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are…
• Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
• Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy.…
• The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing.…
• Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or…
• Food is the supremest of pleasures.
• Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
• I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
• Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
• guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine
• She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your…

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