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Men Quotes by Doris Lessing
- When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief…
- Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it…
- Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
- I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly…
- Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
- None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
- It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.…
- 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…
- Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to…
- For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,…
- A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is…
- The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any…
- Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They…
- ...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use…
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