Fay Weldon quotes

Fay Weldon was an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for her sharp wit and feminist themes. Her work often explored the complexities of women's lives in modern society. She became a prominent voice in British literature with novels such as "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil". Here are 25 of her quotes:

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens. (Fay Weldon)
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. View quote
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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, 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. View quote
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I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state? View quote
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest. View quote
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. View quote
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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. View quote
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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 the outside world. View quote
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I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they? View quote
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends. View quote
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Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on. (Fay Weldon)
Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them. View quote
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Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs. View quote
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guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine. View quote
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon. View quote
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Go to work on an egg. View quote
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. View quote
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. View quote
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I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next. View quote
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Food is the supremest of pleasures. View quote
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. (Fay Weldon)
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. View quote
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Men are irrelevant. View quote
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. View quote
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life. View quote
Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon

Occupation: English Author
Born: September 22, 1931
Died: January 4, 2023
Quotes count: 25
Wikipedia: Fay Weldon

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