"She could see that to lose a sibling……" — Fay Weldon
"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 own departure into nothingness."
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28 Quotes by Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon has 28 quotes on this site.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because…
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When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't…
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has…
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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything,…
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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows…
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to…
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them…
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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More Departure Quotes
This quote is filed under Departure Quotes,
one of 185 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
— Joe Biden
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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become…
— David Bowie
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies…
— Edmund Burke
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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point…
— Winston Churchill
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Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get…
— Tori Amos
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
— Mark Twain
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at…
— Paul de Man
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