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
hope fear expectations
by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
children order people
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
children men disadvantages
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
loneliness new-day giving
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
writing practice peculiar
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
writing generosity people
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
writing gathering thorns
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
writing occupation profession
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
simple rough-times simple-things
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...
reality thinking light
No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
men feminist unhappy
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
believe destiny men
Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
children men lust
For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.
men ends treats
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.