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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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Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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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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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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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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.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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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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