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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

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
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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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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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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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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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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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