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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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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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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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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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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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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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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