Fay Weldon Quotes - Page 4

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• Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

  Fay Weldon

  Husband, Emotional, New Life

  "'Only One Way Out of Here'". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

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• I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

  Fay Weldon

  Real, Writing, Stories

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• Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

  Fay Weldon

  Circles, Forever, Sound

  Fay Weldon (1984). “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”, Pantheon

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• one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Learning, States

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.137, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• 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.

  Fay Weldon

  People, Envy, Want

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

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  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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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.

  Fay Weldon

  Children, Men, Car

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

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• For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.

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  Children, Men, Lust

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• Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!

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  Believe, Destiny, Men

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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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• There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

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  Perseverance, Defeat, Accepting

  Fay Weldon (1998). “Quite contrary”

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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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• 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.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Occupation, Profession

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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.

  Fay Weldon

  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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• 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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• 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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