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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.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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