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Been Quotes by Doris Lessing
- There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
- 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…
- I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.
- A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers…
- If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she…
- You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
- This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy…
- The human race has been telling stories since it began.
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