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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Defiance
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
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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.
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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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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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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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.
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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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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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People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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