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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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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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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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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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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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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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