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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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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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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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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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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.
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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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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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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.
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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.
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