The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
[The Golden Notebook] was not a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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