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" I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. "
Doris Lessing
Much
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" There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. "
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" 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 listen to all this, it must be painful. "
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" All my friends' mothers were appalling women. "
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" In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. "
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" You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. "
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" What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. "
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" I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. "
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" God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. "
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" There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. "
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" I haven't got the energy to write now. "
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" 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 brother. "
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" September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. "
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" I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done. "
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" When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires. "
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" I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. "
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Things
" I'm compulsive. "
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" The human race has been telling stories since it began. "
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" Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. "
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" I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. "
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" I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. "
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" When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. "
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Color
Communist
" I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. "
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" My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. "
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" The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. "
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" We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. "
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