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
too-much have-courage boldness
Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
expression self people
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
pain women good-woman
Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.
cynical next knows
I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.
definitions facts habit
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
acceptance men kind
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
perseverance defeat accepting
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
hate mean men
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
sex hate hungry
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
learning cutting goes-on
One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
writing style looks
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
weakness realizing shortcomings
A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
ignored pessimism prophet
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
husband wife infidelity
one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.