Fay Weldon

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

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.

Men are irrelevant.

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

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.

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

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

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

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

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

Be bold but not too bold. Have courage but not too much.