161 Quotes by Fay Weldon

A ‘weakness,’ I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning...

I know that I’m a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone’s told me to.

A woman has all too much substance in a man’s eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

Ruby once told Margaret that Ben was an accident, but it wasn’t true. The house just felt empty without a baby in it. Good God, why do women have such feelings: and worse, having them, why do they then act upon them?

Peel away the wife, the mother, find the woman within, and there the she devil is.

She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.

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.

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don’t ill-treat them.