161 Quotes by Fay Weldon

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

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.

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

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

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

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

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.