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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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.
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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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I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
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This is an attempt to narrate a real life, my own, and to find the pattern within it. The pattern can't really be completed, of course, until death, when autobiography so rudely turns into biography.
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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.
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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Fay Weldon
Born:
September 22, 1931
Died:
January 4, 2023
(aged 91)
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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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