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

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.

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...

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 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...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Men are irrelevant.

Men are irrelevant.

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...

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women...

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?...

For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?...

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need...

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need...

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion...

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion...

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...