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Fay Weldon
9 quotes
“Go to work on an egg.”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Advertising slogan originated by the Mather & Crowther agency for the British Egg Marketing Board, and used from 1957.
“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Down Among the Women (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1971] 1973) p. 172.
“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.”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Praxis (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978) p. 9.
“I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Heart of the Country (1987)
“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.”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Independent on Sunday (5 May 1991).
“Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Only one way out of here'" The Guardian (28 October 2006).
“I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This much I know: Fay Weldon", The Observer Magazine (30 August 2009).
“One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This much I know: Fay Weldon", The Observer Magazine (30 August 2009).
“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life Force (1992), cited in