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Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Supremest
Pleasures
Food
Pleasure

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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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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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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
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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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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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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