Quotes by Fay Weldon

About Fay Weldon:

Fay Weldon is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Fay Weldon

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I struggled against it all my life, but I think the truth is I was probably born to it. I don't do badly, I don't do well, I just do it.

Fay Weldon

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

Fay Weldon

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

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Fay Weldon

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Fay Weldon

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

Fay Weldon

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Fay Weldon

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Fay Weldon

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

Fay Weldon

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

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Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

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Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mother; you were one kind of woman or another: you were good or you were bad, as the world saw it, and no stations in between. They allowed you to choose; ...

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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Fay Weldon

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Fay Weldon

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

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For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.

Fay Weldon

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven on earth, and had turned out to be hell, he...

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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.

Fay Weldon

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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Author Bio

  • NameFay Weldon
  • DescriptionEnglish author, essayist and playwright
  • BornSeptember 22, 1931
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Essayist; Novelist
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire