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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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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
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