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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of orde...

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Worst Fears

Worry less about what other people think about you and more about what you think about them.

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

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wh...

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and th...

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If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mothe...

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

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have chi...

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I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his...

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Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she ...

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Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.

So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. ...

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Female Friends

We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, mar...

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Female Friends

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I...

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Moon Over Minneapolis

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Fay Weldon

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Born: 1931-09-22

Died: N/A

Fay Weldon, CBE, FRSL (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. An American movie adaptation of her novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil was filmed as She-Devil.More