161 Quotes by Fay Weldon

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.

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.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.