Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
Fay Weldon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Intuition
Instinct
Usually
Means
Without
Mean
Believe
Investigate
Thinking
Conditioning
More quotes by Fay Weldon
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
Fay Weldon
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to not because someone's told me to.
Fay Weldon
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.
Fay Weldon
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
Fay Weldon
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.
Fay Weldon
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
Fay Weldon
I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
Fay Weldon
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
Fay Weldon
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.
Fay Weldon
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.
Fay Weldon
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
Fay Weldon
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
Fay Weldon
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.
Fay Weldon
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
Fay Weldon
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.
Fay Weldon
Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
Fay Weldon
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
Fay Weldon
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
Fay Weldon