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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
Essayist
Feminist
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Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Nothing
Hungry
Recognize
Worked
Sex
Hate
Women
Wanted
Satiated
Everything
Barely

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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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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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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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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
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