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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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