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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. "
Doris Lessing
Brother
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" I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. "
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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 always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning. "
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" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "
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" It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. "
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" That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. "
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" I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. "
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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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" I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. "
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" The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. "
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" I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. "
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" You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. "
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" Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! "
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" The human race has been telling stories since it began. "
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" Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. "
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" You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. "
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" I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married. "
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" Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. "
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" It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. "
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