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Doris Lessing has 203 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If…
— Herbert Spencer
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Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it…
— William Shenstone
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Men use the night to erase us.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
— George Bernard Shaw
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we…
— Thomas More
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm,…
— Rupert Brooke
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
— Voltaire
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...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than…
— Doris Lessing
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You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to…
— George R. R. Martin
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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
— David Mitchell
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