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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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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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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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I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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