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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

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
Hope
Inspirational
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Life
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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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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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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
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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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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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