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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.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Doris May Tayler
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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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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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