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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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 peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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