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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.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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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