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.
Fay WeldonOne must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
Fay WeldonOnly one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Fay WeldonFiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.
Fay WeldonYet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and leaves it, when love has gone, a shred, a simulacrum - dross, to be swept up from the factory floor, pitiful and dusty, useless... Do all men and women feel love before they die? This force, this source of light, that lies before the sun; glances off mountains and lakes, blinding and dazzling, on a Sunday afternoon; so brilliant you have to guard your soul, fold your arms to shield your heart from the very memory of it.
Fay Weldon