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Them Quotes by Doris Lessing
- I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the…
- There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in…
- I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
- Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
- Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
- 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…
- There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping…
- 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…
- Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who…
- 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…
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