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
people
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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.
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.
writing generosity people
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
people envy want
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.
thinking expectations people
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
children order people
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
committees
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
man
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
practice mind affirmation
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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?
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.
dirty clothes redemption
I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.
confidence writing impossible
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.