Explore Quotes by Fay Weldon

Men are irrelevant.

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.

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

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

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

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

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

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.

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

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

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

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

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

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

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.