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
wine motherhood guilt
guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine
running sibling order
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.
beauty giving firsts
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
friends children men
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
book reading cities
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
believe recycling kind
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
book feminist my-own
I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.
book reading home
I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
marriage love-is way
Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
wind sail critics
Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
want littles quiet
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.
everything-happens-for-a-reason happens
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
running real long
I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
unexpected awareness ifs
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.