Fay Weldon - Love Quotes

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And then of course the babies came, and took us by surprise, as babies do. First, how much you love them, second, how much work they are, third, how difficult it is to leave them. We would rather sit and sing to them than get on with running a business.

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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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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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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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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

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