Fay Weldon Quotes

So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.

~ Fay Weldon

Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mother; you were one kind of woman or another: you were good or you were bad, as the world saw it, and no stations in between. They allowed you to choose; you could be the maternal or the erotic, but not a bit of both. The latter made you forget the former. Men married the maternal and then longed for the erotic. Or they married the erotic by mistake, and set about making it into the maternal, and then were just as disappointed.

~ Fay Weldon

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

~ Fay Weldon

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.

~ Fay Weldon

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

~ Fay Weldon

We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination.

~ Fay Weldon

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

~ Fay Weldon

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

~ Fay Weldon

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven on earth, and had turned out to be hell, here and now?

~ Fay Weldon

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.

~ Fay Weldon

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

~ Fay Weldon

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

~ Fay Weldon

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

~ Fay Weldon

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

~ Fay Weldon

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.

~ Fay Weldon

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

~ Fay Weldon