"He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated……" — Doris Lessing
"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 that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety."
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Doris Lessing
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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing
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