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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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When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing

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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. – Doris Lessing

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