Fay Weldon Quotes (16 Quotes)


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

    The New Women I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . . They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be they are what I worked for them to be and now I see them, I hate them.

    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.

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

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


    People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

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

    Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

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

    There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

    They were often forced to do so in their childhood, and nowadays they can get all information on TV.


    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.

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

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

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


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