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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.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
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Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Hate
Women
Wanted
Satiated
Everything
Barely
Nothing
Hungry
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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 always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
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