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Woman Quotes by Doris Lessing
- A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
- 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.…
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
- My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my…
- There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
- 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…
- He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so…
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