Source: Praxis
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Famous Fay Weldon Quotes
Source: She May Not Leave
Source: She May Not Leave
“Curran was beautiful but perhaps a little mad.”
Source: She May Not Leave
“I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.”
Source: The Life and Loves of a She Devil
Source: Female Friends
“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”
Source: Praxis
“Food is the supremest of pleasures.”
Source: Watching me, watching you
“Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually”
“I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.”
Source: Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon
“Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.”
Source: The spa decameron
“I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?”
“One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.”
“Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.”
“Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.”
Source: Letters to Alice
“There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.”
Source: Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon
Source: ... and the wife ran away
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.”
“Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.”
“If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.”
“People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.”
“by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.”
“Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.”
Source: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Source: Letters to Alice
“one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir