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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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Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
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