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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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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.
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There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
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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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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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I hated the 1960's feminists, she says. They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
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I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
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Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
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I never stopped reading.
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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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