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
Fay Weldon quotes about
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.
ordinary ordinary-person extremes
I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
take-me wells
Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
pleasure
Food is the supremest of pleasures.
hope fear expectations
by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
children men disadvantages
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
loneliness new-day giving
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
writing practice peculiar
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
writing generosity people
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
writing gathering thorns
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
writing occupation profession
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
simple rough-times simple-things
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...
men feminist unhappy
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
children men lust
For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.