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The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffere everything.
— Fay Weldon
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain ...
— Fay Weldon
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...
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Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.
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You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.
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I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.
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My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.
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Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.
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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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Men are irrelevant.
— Fay Weldon
It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.
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Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
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Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.
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Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it.
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Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.
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There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine
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If that was dying, I don't want to do it again.
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