Fay Weldon Quotes

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

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.

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.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

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

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