The Fat Woman's Joke Quotes

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring up their kids, you cook their food, you wash their clothes, you warm their beds, you fuss over your face day after day so they'll fancy you, you wear yourself out to keep them happy and at the end of it all, what happens? They find someone else they fancy more. Someone young some man hasn't had the chance to wear out yet. Marriage is a con trick. A girl should marry a rich man, then at least she'd have a fur coat to keep her warm in her old age.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“New lives always begin tomorrow, […] Never now.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Because lurking somewhere beneath the surface of your brain is a vision of loneliness, and it will be a terrible moment when it breaks through, and you realise that your future is not a green pastures, but the knackers yard. We are all separate people, and we are all alone. It is a ridiculous thing to say that no man is an island. We are all islands. You can die, and Gerry won't. Gerry can die, and you won't. Our lives just go on, separate as they have always been.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“I don't know what I want but it's not this. I don't want to be this person, I don't want to be trapped in this body, in this house, in this marriage.fay we”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Food is the supremest of pleasures.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you're not going to change a thing like that in a hurry. Look around you. All the women nicely groomed and attractive and good-looking, and the men no better than fat slugs, for the most part, or skinny runts. Unshaved and smelly as often as not. They get away with everything, men. They can do every disgusting thing they like and no one ever says a thing.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“I just want not to be hurt by him. I want it to be like it was when I was a child, when you thought the day you got married you lived happily ever after.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“This is my home now. I like it. Nothing happens here. I know what to expect from one day to the next. I can control everything, and I can eat. I like eating.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Are you sure you wouldn't like some toast, Phyllis? Toast is one of the triumphs of our civilisation. It must be made with very fresh bread, thickly cut; then toasted very quickly and buttered at once, so the butter is half-melted. Unsalted butter, of course; you sprinkle it with salt afterwards. Sea salt, preferably.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“I'd have apple pie. You break through the crust and it's juicy underneath.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“Grief is a lovely word and a lovely thing. It heals, as resentment cannot. Grief must be admitted and lived through, or it turns into resentment, and continues to bother you for the rest of your life, rearing its depressed little head at all the wrong moments, so that one Sunday tea time at the old lady's home you will unexpectedly begin to cry into your toasted teacake, and the nurses will say "Poor Mrs. Frazer, that's the end," and will move you into the senile ward, when the truth of the matter is quite different. It's not senility, but grief grown uncheckable with age. Myself, I cry now and eat now, so as not to cry later, when it is yet more dangerous. I shall make a very cheerful old lady.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke

“I need men to define me: to give me an idea of what I am. If I didn't have boyfriends I don't think I would exist. I would fly apart in all directions. So I must live my life in perpetual pain, if I want to live at all.”
― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke