Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

About 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.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application – practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

Men are irrelevant.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

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

British writer (1931-2023)

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

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

British writer (1931-2023)

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Fay Weldon

British writer (1931-2023)

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

British writer (1931-2023)