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Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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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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No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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