Fay Weldon Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

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  Take Me, Wells

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• Food is the supremest of pleasures.

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  Pleasure

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

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

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  Too Much, Have Courage, Boldness

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

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• Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

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  Pain, Women, Good Woman

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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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  Sex, Hate, Hungry

  "Praxis: A Novel". Book by Fay Weldon, 1978.

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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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  Hate, Mean, Men

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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.

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  Real, Writing, Stories

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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.

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  Husband, Emotional, New Life

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

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• I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

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  Sorry, Men, Wonder

  "The Heart of the Country". Book by Fay Weldon, 1987.

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

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  Ignored, Pessimism, Prophet

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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.

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  Circles, Forever, Sound

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

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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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• 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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• There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

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  Real, Self, Biographies

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon”, p.1365, Head of Zeus

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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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  Giving, Tears, Gone

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• Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

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  Ambition, Achievement, Should

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

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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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• 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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