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.

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

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

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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

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.

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

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.