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Fay Weldon
English
Novelist
About the author
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Affliction
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#First
#Present
#Nature
#Beauty
#Women
Men are irrelevant.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#Men
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#Practice
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#People
#Credit
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#People
#World
#Self
#Desire
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#People
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#Old
#Age
#Sorrow
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.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#Time
#Nothing
#Children
#Friends
#Men
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.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#People
#Children
#Being
#Women
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Fay Weldon,
English
Novelist
#Acting
#Life
#Love