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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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Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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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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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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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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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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