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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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