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Fay Weldon quotes about women

English Novelist September 22, 1931

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It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit of being good it would do nobody any harm if they learned to be a little bad - that is to say, burn down their houses, give away their children, put their husband in prison, steal his money and turn themselves into their husband's mistress. Fay Weldon
I do use husbands a bit (in books). It's what writers of this kind do, actually. I am quite careful to try to keep the family out of my writing. You find, on the whole, that men will forgive you everything if you say they are good in bed and the women if you say they are beautiful. It's the way to turn away wrath. Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon quote: "Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the..."
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon quote: "As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men,..."
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women. 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
The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be contrary to what's desirable for their view of themselves. And it just invests far more power in the male than is necessary. Fay Weldon

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