Fay Weldon Quotes


"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: Beauty, Nature, Women, First, Present)

"Men are irrelevant."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: Men)

"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: Nothing)

"Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: Practice)

"People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: People, Credit)

"The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: People, Desire, Self, World)

"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: People)

"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: Age, Old, Sorrow)

"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."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: Men, Time, Children, Friends, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Women, People, Being, Children)

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: Life, Love, Acting)