Quote by Doris Lessing
All my friends mothers were appalling women. - Doris Lessing

All my friends mothers were appalling women. – Doris Lessing

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – Doris Lessing

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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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History
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing

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God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. – Mrs Patrick Campbell, in reply to a male acquaintance who asked why women seem t

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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my fathers head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. – Alice Walker

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Id much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and theyre the first to be rescued off sinking ships. – Gilda Radner

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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. – Samuel Richardson

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Take away the right to say “fuck” and you take away the right to say “fuck the government.” – Lenny Bruce

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