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1931–2023 England
Fay Weldon, CBE, FRSL (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. An American movie adaptation of her novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil was filmed as She-Devil.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Life Force (1992)
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
The Heart of the Country (1987)
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.
I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
Natalie had left the wives and joined the women.
The Heart of the Country (1987)
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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.
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: and now I see them, I hate them.
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