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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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Worcestershire
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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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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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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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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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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the 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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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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