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She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry. — Fay Weldon

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens. — Fay Weldon

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

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. — Fay Weldon

The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffere everything. — Fay Weldon

One tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity. — Fay Weldon

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. — Fay Weldon

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain ... — Fay Weldon

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

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ... — Fay Weldon

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon

I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they? — Fay Weldon

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually — Fay Weldon

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

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

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. — Fay Weldon

You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece. — Fay Weldon

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books. — Fay Weldon

You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities. — Fay Weldon

I'd have apple pie. You break through the crust and it's juicy underneath. — Fay Weldon

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state? — Fay Weldon

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away. — Fay Weldon

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

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes. — Fay Weldon

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off. — Fay Weldon

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women. — Fay Weldon

Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him. — Fay Weldon

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next. — Fay Weldon

There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night. — Fay Weldon

Food is the supremest of pleasures. — Fay Weldon

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

My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all. — Fay Weldon

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? — Fay Weldon

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. — Fay Weldon

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon

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

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said. — Fay Weldon

One learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance. — Fay Weldon

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. — Fay Weldon

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

So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got. — Fay Weldon

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time. — Fay Weldon

So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions. — Fay Weldon

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late. — Fay Weldon

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon

Men are irrelevant. — Fay Weldon

It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs. — Fay Weldon

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did. — Fay Weldon

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

By and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope. — Fay Weldon

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

Else to go Felicity sits down upon the steps to consider — Fay Weldon

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. — Fay Weldon

If anything happiness is a feeling of being essential — Fay Weldon

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate. — Fay Weldon

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out. — Fay Weldon

Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee. — Fay Weldon

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion. — Fay Weldon

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. — Fay Weldon

Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. — Fay Weldon

Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it. — Fay Weldon

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good. — Fay Weldon

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. — Fay Weldon

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

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

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford. — Fay Weldon

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement. — Fay Weldon

Getting two sentences together is exhilarating. It is heaven. — Fay Weldon

Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs. — Fay Weldon

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed. — Fay Weldon

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound. — Fay Weldon

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them. — Fay Weldon

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

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. — Fay Weldon

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much. — Fay Weldon

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people. — Fay Weldon

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine — 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. — Fay Weldon

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

If that was dying, I don't want to do it again. — Fay Weldon

It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable. — Fay Weldon

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate. — Fay Weldon

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