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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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