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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.

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Doris May Tayler
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