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: Women Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Men are irrelevant.

Men are irrelevant.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

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

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

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...

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...

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.

I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get...

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get...

I am my own woman.

I am my own woman.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men...

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men...