One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate. — Fay Weldon 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 Copy Share Image
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. — Fay Weldon Doom 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
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women. — 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
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. — Fay Weldon Feminism Copy Share Image
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking… — Fay Weldon 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 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
“To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the… — Fay Weldon Excuses Copy Share Image
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear… — Fay Weldon 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
I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your… — Fay Weldon Book 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
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
“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
