Fay Weldon

“I am not a feminist, but I'm very female-friendly.”

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”

“Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.”

“To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job.”

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”

“Guilt is the major mover of our time.”

“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”

“It is the nature of women not to be satisfied.”

“The first six years of a child's life, it is said, are the most important. But whoever said that had to be a man.”

“The trouble with the world is that it's always in a state of flux. It's just that the flux is faster now.”