Fay Weldon Quotes

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• If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. Awareness
• There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it. Accept
• Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. Feminist
• 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. Me
• 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… Early
• So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions. Abortion
• 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… Barely
• Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. Chaos
• 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.… Doe
• The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. Afflicts
• 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.… All
• Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much. Bold
• 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… Another Dies
• Food is the supremest of pleasures. Food
• Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually Eventually
• I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes. Carried
• Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens. Everything Happens
• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest. Affirmation
• guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine Grapes
• 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… Departure

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