One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon Elements 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
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state? — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying. — Fay Weldon Happiness Copy Share Image
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told… — Fay Weldon 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
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe… — Fay Weldon Circles 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
“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who… — Fay Weldon Gender Copy Share Image
“I just want not to be hurt by him. I want it to be like it was when I was a child,… — Fay Weldon Children Copy Share Image
“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be… — Fay Weldon Book Copy Share Image
Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you… — Fay Weldon Clothes Copy Share Image
I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Pity me'--the unspoken words upon a nation's lips--'because I am indeed pitiable. I have been deprived of freedom--yes, of course, all that.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the… — Fay Weldon 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 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
Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity.… — Fay Weldon Ability Copy Share Image
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still… — Fay Weldon 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 Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon 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
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them. — Fay Weldon Disappointed Copy Share Image
“Guilt is to the soul as pain is to the body, a warning that harm is being done.” — Fay Weldon Guilt 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
“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they? — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.” — Fay Weldon Esther 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 Copy Share Image
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? — Fay Weldon Love 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
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
“The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffer everything.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
