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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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Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
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This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
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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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One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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