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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
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