"Beauty is the first present nature gives to……" — Fay Weldon

"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."

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28 Quotes by Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't…
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has…
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything,…
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…
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to…
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them…
Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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