Fay Weldon Quotes - Page 3

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• Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

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  Doe, Causes, Logic

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.68, Hachette UK

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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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  Writing, Gathering, Thorns

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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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  Sex, Men, Feedback

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

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• The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

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  Writing, Practice, Peculiar

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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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  Friends, Children, Men

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

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  Marriage, Love Is, Way

  Fay Weldon (2007). “The spa decameron”

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• Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!

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  Believe, Destiny, Men

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• No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

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  Reality, Thinking, Light

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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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  Simple, Rough Times, Simple Things

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

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  Men, Feminist, Unhappy

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• What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

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  Worry, Stop Worrying, Minutes

  Fay Weldon (2011). “What Makes Women Happy”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

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  People, Envy, Want

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• Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and leaves it, when love has gone, a shred, a simulacrum - dross, to be swept up from the factory floor, pitiful and dusty, useless... Do all men and women feel love before they die? This force, this source of light, that lies before the sun; glances off mountains and lakes, blinding and dazzling, on a Sunday afternoon; so brilliant you have to guard your soul, fold your arms to shield your heart from the very memory of it.

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  Memories, Lying, Heart

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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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  Writing, Occupation, Profession

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

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  Life, Blessed, Fate

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• People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

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  Children, Order, People

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• My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

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  Children, Men, Car

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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