161 Quotes by Fay Weldon

You must read, Alice, before it's too late. You must fill your mind with the invented images of the past: the more the better.

Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the curse. It’s God’s punishment.’‘For what?’‘Giving Adam the apple, I suppose.’‘He didn’t have to eat it.’‘Yes he did. If someone offers you food, it’s only manners to take it. Why are you always so argumentative?

As a young woman I, Frances, did not have Serena's appetite for work. I never quite accepted employment as an essential part in my life.

I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.

If you love the father of your child you feel he has given enough. If you don't love him all you want is his money.

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven on earth, and had turned out to be hell, here and now?

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Curran was beautiful but perhaps a little mad.

Serena is full of advice, about everything from how to cure thrush, how to survive a divorce, how to write novels. She feels that if she knows things others don't it is her duty to pass them on. Many of her sentences begin with 'Why don't you—?'