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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.
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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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