"A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels."

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Source : Fay Weldon (1967). “... and the wife ran away”

Fay Weldon

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“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”
“Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
“There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.”
“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”
“If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.”
“Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?”
“How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.”
“The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.”

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