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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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Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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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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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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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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