161 Quotes by Fay Weldon

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

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

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

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.