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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.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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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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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Fay Weldon
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
Fay Weldon
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
Fay Weldon
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
Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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