Fay Weldon Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• 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.

  Fay Weldon

  Running, Sibling, Order

  Fay Weldon (1997). “Worst Fears”, p.130, Atlantic Monthly Press

  5 Copy quote

• The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

  Fay Weldon

  Ignored, Pessimism, Prophet

  0 Copy quote

• Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

  Fay Weldon

  Doe, Causes, Logic

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.68, Hachette UK

  0 Copy quote

• Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

  Fay Weldon

  Past, Mind, Energy

  Fay Weldon (2012). “The President’s Child”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

  0 Copy quote

• Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

  Fay Weldon

  Too Much, Have Courage, Boldness

  Fay Weldon (1976). “Remember me”, Random House (NY)

  0 Copy quote

• I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Home

  3 Copy quote

• Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

  Fay Weldon

  Want, Partners, Get Away

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.344, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  0 Copy quote

• 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.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Gathering, Thorns

  0 Copy quote

• The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Practice, Peculiar

  0 Copy quote

• Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

  Fay Weldon

  Fall, Support, Novelists

  0 Copy quote

• 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.

  Fay Weldon

  Loneliness, Giving, New Day

  0 Copy quote

• I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?

  Fay Weldon

  Sex, Men, Feedback

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

  0 Copy quote

• 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.

  Fay Weldon

  Friends, Children, Men

  2 Copy quote

• Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

  Fay Weldon

  Marriage, Love Is, Way

  Fay Weldon (2007). “The spa decameron”

  3 Copy quote

• Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

  Fay Weldon

  Desire, Prudence, One Thing

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.345, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  0 Copy quote

• Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

  Fay Weldon

  Believe, Destiny, Chance

  0 Copy quote

• Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

  Fay Weldon

  Nuisance, Publishers, Ifs

  0 Copy quote

• Food is the supremest of pleasures.

  Fay Weldon

  Pleasure

  Fay Weldon (1981). “Watching me, watching you”, Simon & Schuster

  0 Copy quote

• If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

  Fay Weldon

  Infinity, Eternity, Ends

  0 Copy quote

• Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

  Fay Weldon

  Ambition, Achievement, Should

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.78, Hachette UK

  0 Copy quote

• I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.

  Fay Weldon

  Lying, Congratulations, School

  6 Copy quote

• I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

  Fay Weldon

  Cynical, Next, Happens

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Chalcot Crescent”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

  0 Copy quote

• 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.

  Fay Weldon

  Morning, Order, Next Day

  0 Copy quote

• If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

  Fay Weldon

  Acceptance, Men, Kind

  0 Copy quote

• 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.

  Fay Weldon

  Giving, Tears, Gone

  0 Copy quote

Page 2 of 4

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin