One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. Fay Weldon More Quotes by Fay Weldon More Quotes From Fay Weldon If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. Fay Weldon hope inspirational life Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest. Fay Weldon affirmation practice mind Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens. Fay Weldon everything-happens-for-a-reason happens Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about. Fay Weldon reading cities book I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you. Fay Weldon real running long Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. Fay Weldon understanding literature fiction I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books. Fay Weldon my-own feminist book Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life. Fay Weldon want littles quiet She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness. Fay Weldon sibling running order guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine Fay Weldon motherhood wine guilt A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels. Fay Weldon males eye men Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. Fay Weldon sisterhood beauty giving One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. Fay Weldon recycling kind believe Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. Fay Weldon sail critics wind Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out. Fay Weldon marriage love-is way I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day. Fay Weldon reading home book 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. Fay Weldon friends men children It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault. Fay Weldon reading character book I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. Fay Weldon real stories writing A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you need to look your best it will deliver you a pimple; if you don't want it to, your period will start early; if you want a baby badly your body refuses to give you one; if you are content in your life, lo, you are pregnant. Fay Weldon heart baby giving
