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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
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Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?
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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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