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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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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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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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.
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