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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

A woman rarely discards one lover - until she is sure of another.

A woman rarely discards one lover - until she is sure of another.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It...

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It...

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.