"The New Women! I could barely recognize them……" — Fay Weldon
"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 what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them."
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Fay Weldon
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28 Quotes by Fay Weldon
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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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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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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep,…
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