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1 " I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping. "
― Fay Weldon , The Life and Loves of a She Devil
2 " Peel away the wife, the mother, find the woman within, and there the she devil is. "
3 " want revenge. I want power. I want money. I want to be loved and not love in return. "
4 " I am not all she devil. A she devil has no memory of the past - she is born afresh every morning. She deals with the feelings of today, not yesterday, and she is free. There is a little bit of me left, still woman. "
5 " We discuss things, rather than ideas; we exchange information, not theories; we keep ourselves steady by thinking about the particular. The general is frightening. "
6 " He knew he had changed because when presently he took confession from a woman who had been using contraceptives and whose husband had left her, he did not equate the sin with the consequence. "
7 " Domestic strife is catching. Happy couples do well to avoid the company of the unhappy. "
8 " Doubt afflicts the good, not the bad. "
9 " even as she says it, sees love drain out of his eyes: and somehow, as a stream, which seeks its own level, it flows over into hers, and her fate is sealed. The less he loves, the more she will. "
10 " for a man functions best if he ventures out into the world from a domestic setting in which his restless sexual and procreative energies are given liberty. "
11 " Up there on Olympus, where he’d been raised, where the mountain of reason pierces the sky of the intellect, the talk was all of how the soul suffered if the senses were gratified. Polly Patch would not allow it. She claimed, as the Devil would, that the senses and the soul were one: that gratifying one was to gratify the other. "
