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
ignored pessimism prophet
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
pride thinking
Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
stubborn poverty bounds
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
want partners get-away
Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
simple rough-times simple-things
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...
worry stop-worrying minutes
What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.
ambition achievement should
Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
acceptance effort tides
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.
husband emotional widows
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.
take-me wells
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
party clothes people
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.
clothes today looks
Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?
circles forever useless
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
hope fear expectations
by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.