Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon CBE FRSLis an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 September 1931
thinking expectations people
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
infinity eternity ends
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain ...
nuisance ifs publishers
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
believe destiny chance
Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
desire prudence one-thing
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
morning order next-day
If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
eye men substance
A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
baby creativity night
Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity. It reminds one that there is always more where that came from and there is never any shortage of ideas or of the ability to create. The process of being pregnant and then of having the baby and getting up in the night only puts one more in touch with this fecund part of one's self.
giving tears already-gone
No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
ambition achievement should
Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
expression self people
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
sex hate hungry
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.
baby sex abortion
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
hate mean men
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.