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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
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Feminist
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Worcestershire
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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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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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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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