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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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Feminist
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Worcestershire
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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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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.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
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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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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
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