Quote

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

Fay Weldon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Marriage
Least
Asks
Woman
Way
Love
Arranged
Stressful

More quotes by Fay Weldon

Image
Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
Fay Weldon
Image
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
Fay Weldon
Image
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
Fay Weldon
Image
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
Fay Weldon
Image
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.
Fay Weldon
Image
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
Fay Weldon
Image
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
Fay Weldon
Image
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
Fay Weldon
Image
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
Fay Weldon
Image
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
Fay Weldon
Image
by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
Fay Weldon
Image
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
Fay Weldon
Image
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.
Fay Weldon
Image
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.
Fay Weldon
Image
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!
Fay Weldon
Image
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
Fay Weldon
Image
Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
Fay Weldon
Image
one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
Fay Weldon
Image
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?
Fay Weldon
Image
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.
Fay Weldon