Fay Weldon Quotes - Page 4

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• I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

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  Ordinary, Ordinary Person, Extremes

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon”, p.1126, Head of Zeus

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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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  Men, Feminist, Unhappy

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• Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and leaves it, when love has gone, a shred, a simulacrum - dross, to be swept up from the factory floor, pitiful and dusty, useless... Do all men and women feel love before they die? This force, this source of light, that lies before the sun; glances off mountains and lakes, blinding and dazzling, on a Sunday afternoon; so brilliant you have to guard your soul, fold your arms to shield your heart from the very memory of it.

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  Memories, Lying, Heart

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• What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

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  Worry, Stop Worrying, Minutes

  Fay Weldon (2011). “What Makes Women Happy”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

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  People, Envy, Want

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• As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

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  Children, Men, Disadvantages

  "I'm the only feminist there is - the others are all out of step". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.

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• Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

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  Acceptance, Effort, Tides

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• A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you need to look your best it will deliver you a pimple; if you don't want it to, your period will start early; if you want a baby badly your body refuses to give you one; if you are content in your life, lo, you are pregnant.

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  Baby, Heart, Giving

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• memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

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  Memories, Thinking, Selective

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon”, p.1211, Head of Zeus

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

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  Acceptance, Men, Kind

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• Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

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  Stubborn, Poverty, Bounds

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

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  Pride, Thinking

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.181, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity. It reminds one that there is always more where that came from and there is never any shortage of ideas or of the ability to create. The process of being pregnant and then of having the baby and getting up in the night only puts one more in touch with this fecund part of one's self.

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  Baby, Creativity, Night

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• I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

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  Dirty, Clothes, Redemption

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• No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

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  Reality, Thinking, Light

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• Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

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  Simple, Rough Times, Simple Things

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

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  Writing, Occupation, Profession

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• Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

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  Party, Clothes, People

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

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  Children, Men, Car

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Children, Order, People

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