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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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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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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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We shelter children for a time we live side by side with men and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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