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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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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Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
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Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.
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America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
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As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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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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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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