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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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Worcestershire
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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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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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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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