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There seems to be a general overall pattern in most lives, that nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then all of a sudden everything happens.
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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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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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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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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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Had you never noticed the way the secret world sends our signs and symbols into the ordinary world? It delivers our messages in the form of coincidences: Still, it had been a good marriage as marriages go. And as marriages go, it went.
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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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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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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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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.
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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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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.
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I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.
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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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Books are wonderful things: to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Much sheer effort goes into avoiding truth: left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.
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Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.
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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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Agree with your accusers, loudly and clearly. They will shut up sooner.
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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Fay Weldon
Born:
September 22, 1931
Died:
January 4, 2023
(aged 91)
Bio:
Fay Weldon was an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism.
Known for:
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
The New Countess (2013)
Auto da Fay (2002)
The Fat Woman's Joke (1967)
Habits of the House (2012)
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