She May Not Leave Quotes

“If you love the father of your child you feel he has given enough. If you don't love him all you want is his money.”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave

“I am lucky with Sebastian. He has managed to get past seventy without going doolally, getting depressed, splashed by nerve poison, changing his nature, trusting demented therapists, chasing after little girls as some men do, forgetting to zip up his flies, dribbling his food, champing false teeth, shuffling in slippers, quarreling with neighbours, cursing his enemies, shaking his fist Lear-like at the skies: all the things — Wanda is quite right — that men tend to do as they get older.”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave

“Serena maintains today that as George grew older he also grew out of his mind. Many men do, in my experience. Life does not come up to their expectations: they grow older, and disappointed. At fifty they realise others have passed them by, made more money, won more respect. Their sexual drive fades and the self-esteem that goes with it. They take to litigation and shake their fists at other drivers.”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave

“Serena is full of advice, about everything from how to cure thrush, how to survive a divorce, how to write novels. She feels that if she knows things others don't it is her duty to pass them on. Many of her sentences begin with 'Why don't you—?' ”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave

“Serena and I would reassure our mother in our later years — see, you did the right thing, we turned out okay — but she never quite believed us.”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave

“As a young woman I, Frances, did not have Serena's appetite for work. I never quite accepted employment as an essential part in my life.”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave

“Curran was beautiful but perhaps a little mad.”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave

“Guilt is to the soul as pain is to the body, a warning that harm is being done.”
― Fay Weldon, She May Not Leave