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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.
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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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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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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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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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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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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