Quote by Doris Lessing
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years,

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I cant say I do like it very much. – Doris Lessing

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Theres 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. – Doris Lessing

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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – Doris Lessing

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Women love a self-confident bald man. – Larry David

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Theres something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like womens backs. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. – Elissa Melamed

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