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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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Worcestershire
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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.
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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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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.
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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 abortions.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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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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No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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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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People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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