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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Gives
Giving
Present
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Beauty
Away
Nature
Women
Firsts
Sisterhood

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