Quote by Doris Lessing
My father was in the First World War. - Doris Lessing

My father was in the First World War. – Doris Lessing

Other quotes by Doris Lessing

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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Professionalism
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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
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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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Women
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. – J. B. Priestley

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War

Ive always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. – Brad Pitt

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War

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. – Hans A. Bethe

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War

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. – Charles Schumer

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