Fay Weldon Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 22, 1931

Topics

WomenChildrenPeopleSelfishYou

In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.

Joe Kaeser

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When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.

Jessie Buckley

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The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Jerry Brown

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

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I think the wrestling world needs TNA. I think the wrestlers need TNA. I think the fans need TNA.

Matt Hardy

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I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

Angie Thomas

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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Jeff Goodell

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It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Amanda Bynes

GoodGreatEndInterestingYouKnow

Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.

Ruth Rendell

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The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.

Martin O'Malley

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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Don Marquis

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