Quote

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

Fay Weldon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Afford
Pride
Think
Thinking

More quotes by Fay Weldon

Image
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.
Fay Weldon
Image
One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
Fay Weldon
Image
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
Fay Weldon
Image
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
Fay Weldon
Image
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Fay Weldon
Image
Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
Fay Weldon
Image
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
Fay Weldon
Image
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
Fay Weldon
Image
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
Fay Weldon
Image
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
Fay Weldon
Image
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
Fay Weldon
Image
Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
Fay Weldon
Image
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
Fay Weldon
Image
memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
Fay Weldon
Image
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
Fay Weldon
Image
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?
Fay Weldon
Image
Food is the supremest of pleasures.
Fay Weldon
Image
She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
Fay Weldon
Image
A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
Fay Weldon
Image
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
Fay Weldon