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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.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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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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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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