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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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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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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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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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