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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.
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 am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
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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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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
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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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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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