Fay Weldon

Quotes by Fay Weldon

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Writer · British · 1931–2023

British writer (1931–2023)

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acceptance self love happiness truth feminism life motherhood grief choices self-sabotage positive knowledge feminism-identity marriage womanhood great-war male-war death living fiction she-may-not-leave books existence readers friendships judgement thought damnation regret

“She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.”
— Fay Weldon
grief

“We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would...”
— Fay Weldon
choices self-sabotage

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

“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.”
— Fay Weldon
positive

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

“I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.”
— Fay Weldon
self knowledge

“Worry less about what other people think about you and more about what you think about them.”
— Fay Weldon
worry