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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.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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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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