Fay Weldon Quotes
Top 85 wise famous quotes and sayings by Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
definition translate tendencies into habits.
One tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.
My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.
I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the sick, consider the dead.
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
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.
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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.
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Absolutely,' she said. 'The more you pay attention to the body, the less attention you've got left to pay the soul. I really do understand that.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.