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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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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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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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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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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to not because someone's told me to.
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I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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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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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.
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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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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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