161 Quotes by Fay Weldon

Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that’s all there is to it.

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I struggled against it all my life, but I think the truth is I was probably born to it. I don’t do badly, I don’t do well, I just do it.

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.

Style is what’s there when you look at someone’s writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

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

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

Men are irrelevant.