Fay Weldon

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

— Fay Weldon

Go to work on an egg.

— Fay Weldon

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

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

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

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

I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?

— Fay Weldon

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

— Fay Weldon

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

— Fay Weldon

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

— Fay Weldon