Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
Fay WeldonAs it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
Fay WeldonWhat happens now is that if some unfortunate man goes to bed with some woman, overnight there's a divorce. He thinks and feels about the authenticity of his being, then they have to get married. So they just end up having serial marriages, which is distressing for the children. It would be much better if people just put up with the guilt of having erred and shut up.
Fay WeldonGetting two sentences together is exhilarating. It is heaven.
Fay WeldonThe 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 WeldonI 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 WeldonIf that was dying, I don't want to do it again.
Fay WeldonMary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
Fay WeldonTags: love hate revenge jealousy she-devil
Truly, 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!
Fay WeldonAbsolutely,' she said. 'The more you pay attention to the body, the less attention you've got left to pay the soul. I really do understand that.
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