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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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" 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. "

Doris Lessing

You

Say

" 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. "

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

" I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. "

" I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. "

" 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. "

" Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. "

" There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. "

" I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. "

" You know, 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. "

" They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. "

Doris Lessing

Better

Thinking

" Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. "

" If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. "

" God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. "

" I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. "

Doris Lessing

School

Myself

" I'm just a story teller. "

" When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work. "

Doris Lessing

Child

Myself

" All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed. "

" September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. "

" You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. "

" There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. "

" I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it. "

" What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. "

" I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. "

" Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. "

" I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' "

Doris Lessing

Nothing

Process

" I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. "