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.

Quote by Fay Weldon

Topics: Mothers Quotes, Women Quotes

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that...

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that...

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Men are irrelevant.

Men are irrelevant.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to...

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to...

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which...

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you...

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice...

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice...

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people...

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people...

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange...

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange...

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the...

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the...

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had...

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had...

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.