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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
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But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.
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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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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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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
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It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.
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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
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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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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.
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Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
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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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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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