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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Alvechurch
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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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
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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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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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