by snowydays | Jun 21, 2016 | Families, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
This is an article the Daily Mail commissioned in March but didn’t run: PLAIN OR PRETTY? I started out as a plump, cheerful child. I turned into a plump, frivolous adult. Now I find myself described as an apple-cheeked, smiley old lady. I’d be happier to have been be...
by snowydays | Jun 3, 2015 | Feminism, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
The Daily Mail asked me earlier this week, I said – “Since ‘God moves in a mysterious way’, I am surprised more men don’t think the Deity is female.” I don’t know how one deals with such a question, but my husband had a go in his song In the Name of the Mother,...
by snowydays | May 28, 2015 | Feminism, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
Life no longer begins at 40, more’s the pity. Once when a woman reached that age her children would be grown, and she’d have spare time available to think about her looks and her own pleasure and interests. She was expected to be married and a mother by the age of 23...
by snowydays | Oct 24, 2010 | Childbirth, Families, Feminism, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
This is the title of a story I once wrote (back in 2001 when such things were just a gleam in a geneticist’s eye.) Do it, do it! I cried then, even as I quaver now: it can be done, and is being done. If you’re a fertile young woman, and any employer is offering to...
