Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon was a British author, essayist and playwright.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Birmingham
- Educated at
- South Hampstead High SchoolUniversity of St AndrewsChristchurch Girls' High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Commander of the Order of the British Empire🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be…"
"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 terr…"
"Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on."
"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."
"One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods."
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Timeline
1931
Born
Birth2023
Died
Death
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