Heraclitus
Greek philosopher
Fay Weldon was an English author, essayist and playwright.
Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffballand The Bulgari Connectionwhich was televised by the BBC in 1986.
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About the Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon was an English author, essayist and playwright.
Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffballand The Bulgari Connectionwhich was televised by the BBC in 1986.
Married three times and with four children, Weldon was a self-declared feminist. Her work features what she described as “overweight, plain women”. She said there were many reasons why she became a feminist, including the “appalling” lack of equal opportunities and the myth that women were supported by male relatives.
12 Quotes by Fay Weldon
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application – practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
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Men are irrelevant.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
- 5.
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
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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 WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
- 7.
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
- 8.
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
- 9.
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
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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.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Fay WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)
- 12.
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 WeldonBritish writer (1931-2023)