Quotes by Fay Weldon

• No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
• Men are irrelevant.
• Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
• The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
• The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
• There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
• 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.
• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.