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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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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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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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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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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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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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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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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.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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