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

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Worcestershire
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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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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A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
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Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.
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