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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.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Worcestershire
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
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