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No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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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 am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
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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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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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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?
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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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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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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