Fay Weldon Quotes

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• If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

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  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Moon Over Minneapolis”, p.5, Head of Zeus

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• Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

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  Wind, Sail, Critics

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• Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

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  Everything Happens For A Reason, Happens

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Wicked Women”, p.246, Head of Zeus

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• Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

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  Understanding, Fiction, Literature

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• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

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  Practice, Mind, Affirmation

  "It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream". Book by Canaan Mashonganyika, 2013.

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• I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

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  Cynical, Next, Happens

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Chalcot Crescent”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Truly Alice, 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! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

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  Book, Reading, Cities

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

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  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

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  Beauty, Sisterhood, Giving

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• A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

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  Weakness, Realizing, Shortcomings

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• Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

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  Past, Mind, Energy

  Fay Weldon (2012). “The President’s Child”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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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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• 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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  Running, Real, Long

  Fay Weldon (1993). “Life Force”

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• I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

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  Book, Feminist, My Own

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• Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

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  Want, Littles, Quiet

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• A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

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  Eye, Men, Males

  Fay Weldon (1967). “... and the wife ran away”

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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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  Baby, Sex, Abortion

  Fay Weldon (2015). “Mischief: Fay Weldon Selects Her Best Short Stories”, p.14, Head of Zeus

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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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  Want, Partners, Get Away

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.344, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.

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  Running, Play, Hands

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• guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

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  Wine, Motherhood, Guilt

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• Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?

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  Clothes, Looks, Today

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• Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

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  Writing, Style, Looks

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• One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

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  Definitions, Facts, Habit

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• How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

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  Understood

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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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  Believe, Recycling, Kind

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

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