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
real writing stories
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.
acceptance men kind
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
cynical next knows
I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.
definitions facts habit
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
too-much have-courage boldness
Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
hair mourning suffering
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.
acceptance effort tides
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.
running hands play
If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.
sorry men wonder
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
sex men feedback
I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
husband emotional widows
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.
ordinary ordinary-person extremes
I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
take-me wells
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
pleasure
Food is the supremest of pleasures.