Fay Weldon Quotes

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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Men are irrelevant.

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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

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