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

Life Force (1992) Source: [Kakutani, Michiko, 1992-02-07, Books of The Times; Fallout From a Multitude of Liaisons, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/books/books-of-the-times-fallout-from-a-multitude-of-liaisons.html, New York Times, 2020-02-12]

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

Fay Weldon

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”

Fay Weldon

Source: The Fat Woman's Joke

“guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine”

Fay Weldon

“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.”

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Down Among the Women (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1971] 1973) p. 172.

“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.”

Fay Weldon

The Independent on Sunday, May 5, 1991.

Fay Weldon Quotes

“One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.”

Fay Weldon

"This much I know: Fay Weldon", The Observer Magazine, August 30, 2009.

“The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.”

Fay Weldon

Praxis (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978) p. 9.

“Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.”

Fay Weldon

The Guardian, October 28, 2006. http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/homes/story/0,,1933478,00.html

“I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?”

Fay Weldon

"This much I know: Fay Weldon", The Observer Magazine, August 30, 2009.

“I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?”

Fay Weldon

The Heart of the Country (1987)

“Go to work on an egg.”

Fay Weldon

Advertising slogan originated by the Mather & Crowther agency for the British Egg Marketing Board, and used from 1957. http://www.gotoworkonanegg.com/ <br class="br">Fay Weldon wrote to Nigel Rees in 1981: "I was certainly in charge of copy [at Mather & Crowther] at the time…Who invented it, it would be hard to say. It is perfectly possible, indeed probable, that I put those six particular words together in that particular order but I would not swear to it." (The "Quote…Unquote" Newsletter, July 1992, p. 2).