Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
Fay WeldonThere is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.
Fay WeldonDuring the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.
Fay WeldonShe drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.
Fay WeldonWorry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.
Fay WeldonTags: thought judgement friendships
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 WeldonOne sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
Fay WeldonIt became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.
Fay WeldonI think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the sick, consider the dead.
Fay WeldonYou don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.
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