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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
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Autobiographer
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Feminist
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Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Women
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