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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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 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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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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