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

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

Men are irrelevant.
Fay Weldon

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

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

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Fay Weldon

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

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

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

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

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