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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Hope
Fear
Nothing
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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