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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
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I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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I hated the 1960's feminists, she says. They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
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Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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