Quotes by Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon

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

Realizing

Shortcomings

Weakness

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.

Eye

Males

Men

A woman’s body works as if it knew something she didn’t, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you need to look your best it will deliver you a pimple; if you don’t want it to, your period will start early; if you want a baby badly your body refuses to give you one; if you are content in your life, lo, you are pregnant.

Baby

Giving

Heart

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

Achievement

Ambition

Should

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

Boldness

Have Courage

Too Much

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

Beauty

Giving

Sisterhood

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Expectations

Fear

Hope

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

Confidence

Impossible

Writing

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?

Clothes

Looks

Today

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Fiction

Literature

Understanding

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Acceptance

Accepting

Achievement

Ambition

Baby

Beauty

Believe

Boldness

Book

Chance

Character

Children

Cities

Clothes

Clouds

Confidence

Cynical

Defeat

Definitions

Destiny

Dirty

Effort

Emotional

Ends

Energy

Envy

Eternity

Everything Happens For A Reason

Expectations

Expression

Eye

Facts

Fall

Fear

Feedback

Feelings

Feminist

Fiction

Gathering

Giving

Gone

Good Woman

Guilt

Habit

Hands

Happens

Hate

Have Courage

Heart

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Quotes by Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon

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

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.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

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

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

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

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?

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

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