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
writing learning states
one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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.
running hands play
If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.
sex men feedback
I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
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.
happiness hate hands
To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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.
fiction elements literature
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.