Fay Weldon
Novelist
1931-09-22
Quotes by Fay Weldon
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For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mother; you were one kind of woman or another: you were good or you were bad, as the world saw it, and no stations in between. They allowed you to choose; you could be the maternal or the erotic, but not a bit of both. The latter made you forget the former. Men married the maternal and then longed for the erotic. Or they married the erotic by mistake, and set about making it into the maternal, and then were just as disappointed.
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guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine
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So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
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For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
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Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mother; you were one kind of woman or another: you were good or you were bad, as the world saw it, and no stations in between. They allowed you to choose; you could be the maternal or the erotic, but not a bit of both. The latter made you forget the former. Men married the maternal and then longed for the erotic. Or they married the erotic by mistake, and set about making it into the maternal, and then were just as disappointed.
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guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Hillary lies sleepless in her bed. It's spooky in here, she thinks, and she turns on the ceiling light to supplement the night light. Jonathon whickers in his sleep, and reminds her of his guinea pig.
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Jamie is fifty and feels thirty: Judy is thirty and feels twenty. That's only ten years difference.
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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.
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