Fay Weldon Quotes

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

Beauty, Nature, Women

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

Through, Getting, Themselves

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

Nothing, Everything, Happens

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

Mind, Practice, Manifest

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

Age, Old, Sorrow

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

Women, Nice, Selfish

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

Life, Love, Real

Men are irrelevant.
Fay Weldon

Men, Irrelevant

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

Happy, Known, Affliction

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

Give, Ourselves, Credit

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

Greatest, Individual, Committees

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

Time, Men, Live

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Nationality: English

Born: September 22, 1931

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