Fay Weldon Quotes

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

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

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.

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

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I struggled against it all my life, but I think the truth is I was probably born to it. I don't do badly, I don't do well, I just do it.

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven on earth, and had turned out to be hell, here and now?

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.