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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

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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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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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.
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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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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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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
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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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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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