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Fay Weldon Quotes

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes Picture Quote #1

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much Picture Quote #1

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out Picture Quote #1

Guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine Picture Quote #1

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn’t accept it Picture Quote #1

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens Picture Quote #1

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If you put a woman in a man’s position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind Picture Quote #1

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic Picture Quote #1

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her Picture Quote #1

So much for the fruits of love. Love? What’s love? Sex, ah, that’s another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions Picture Quote #1

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women Picture Quote #1

I know that I’m a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone’s told me to Picture Quote #1

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Jamie is fifty and feels thirty: Judy is thirty and feels twenty. That’s only ten years difference Picture Quote #1

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them Picture Quote #1

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning Picture Quote #1

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next Picture Quote #1

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits Picture Quote #1

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most Picture Quote #1

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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men Picture Quote #1

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods Picture Quote #1

I like sex. I’ve had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won’t they? Picture Quote #1

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die Picture Quote #1

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If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself Picture Quote #1

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I’d rather go with desire any time Picture Quote #1

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion Picture Quote #1

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would Picture Quote #1

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain Picture Quote #1

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives Picture Quote #1

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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes (Fay Weldon Quotes) Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much (Fay Weldon Quotes) Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out (Fay Weldon Quotes) Guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine (Fay Weldon Quotes) There was no such thing as defeat if you didn’t accept it (Fay Weldon Quotes) If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens (Fay Weldon Quotes) If you put a woman in a man’s position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind (Fay Weldon Quotes) Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic (Fay Weldon Quotes) Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her (Fay Weldon Quotes) So much for the fruits of love. Love? What’s love? Sex, ah, that’s another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions (Fay Weldon Quotes) As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women (Fay Weldon Quotes) I know that I’m a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone’s told me to (Fay Weldon Quotes) Jamie is fifty and feels thirty: Judy is thirty and feels twenty. That’s only ten years difference (Fay Weldon Quotes) Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them (Fay Weldon Quotes) Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning (Fay Weldon Quotes) I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next (Fay Weldon Quotes) One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits (Fay Weldon Quotes) One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most (Fay Weldon Quotes) Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence (Fay Weldon Quotes) 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 (Fay Weldon Quotes) Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men (Fay Weldon Quotes) One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods (Fay Weldon Quotes) I like sex. I’ve had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won’t they? (Fay Weldon Quotes) There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die (Fay Weldon Quotes) If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself (Fay Weldon Quotes) Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I’d rather go with desire any time (Fay Weldon Quotes) Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion (Fay Weldon Quotes) Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would (Fay Weldon Quotes) If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain (Fay Weldon Quotes) Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives (Fay Weldon Quotes)

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