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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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Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
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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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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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