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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Feminist
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Worcestershire
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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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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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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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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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