Fay Weldon

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1. 1931 age 0

   Born

2. 1980 age 49

   CreditPride and Prejudicescreenwriter

3. 2023 age 91

   Died

• DRDavid Rintoul1 title
• CHClare Higgins1 title
• EKElizabeth Knight1 title
• JPJudy Parfitt1 title
• PMPriscilla Morgan1 title
• BSBarbara Shelley1 title
• TPTessa Peake-Jones1 title
• MFMarsha Fitzalan1 title
• WJWilfred Josephs1 title
• DMDoreen Mantle1 title

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  Photo:Mogens EngelundCC BY-SA 3.0

• Go to work on an egg.

  Fay Weldon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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 Weldon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Fay Weldon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

  Fay Weldon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Fay Weldon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Fay Weldon, CC BY-SA 4.0