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About Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon CBE (born Franklin Birkinshaw on 22 September 1931) is an English novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Her best-known work may be her novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, filmed as She-Devil.

Born: September 22nd, 1931

Categories: English people, Feminists, Novelists, Screenwriters, English short story writers, Journalists, Living people

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Go to work on an egg.
Fay Weldon
• Advertising slogan originated by the Mather & Crowther agency for the British Egg Marketing Board, and used from 1957. http://www.gotoworkonanegg.com/
• Fay Weldon wrote to Nigel Rees in 1981: "I was certainly in charge of copy [at Mather & Crowther] at the time…Who invented it, it would be hard to say. It is perfectly possible, indeed probable, that I put those six particular words together in that particular order but I would not swear to it." (The "Quote…Unquote" Newsletter, July 1992, p. 2).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fay Weldon" (Sourced)
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?
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
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.
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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