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. ”