Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon Quotes

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English  writer,   an   advertising   copywriter  before   turning   to novels   and   screenplays.   She   is   best   known  for   her   fiction, which  deal  with  recurring   themes,   including   the   nature  of women's  sexuality  and experience  in  a  patriarchal world.  Her works  include  Female  Friends  (1974), The  Life  and  Loves  of  a She-Devil  (1983), The  Cloning  of  Joanna  May  (1989)  and  The Bulgari Connection (2001).

I think if you had ever written a book you were absolutely pleased with, you'd never write another. The same probably goes for having children.

1991  In The Guardian, 28 Nov.

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Go to work on an egg.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1957  Advertising slogan for the British Egg Marketing Board.

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The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1983  Title of novel.

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Pride comes before a fall; a sense of sisterhood with sad experience.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1987  The Heart of the Country,'Chomp, Chomp, Grittle-Grax, Gone!'

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Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsfun, fun, fun!and the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1987  The Heart of the Country,'LoveYour Enemy'.

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To journey is better than to arriveor so say those who have already arrived.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1987  The Heart of the Country,'Doing It AllWrong'.

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It's full time work being on social security. They really make you earn your living.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1987  The Heart of the Country,'Driven Mad'.

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Men are so romantic, don't you think? They look for a perfect partner when what they should be looking for is perfect love.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1987  In the SundayTimes, 6 Sep.

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I didn't set out to be a feminist writer. I just look at the sheep out of the window and watch their behaviour.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1989  In the Observer, 30 Apr.

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Nature's only interest is in having you procreate, then it throws you away.

Fay Originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
— 1992  In The Guardian,15 Jan.

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