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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.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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