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

All my friends mothers were appalling women. – Doris Lessing

Other quotes by Doris Lessing

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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Imagination
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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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best
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I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. – Doris Lessing

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Its very hard for a woman in comedy. Its hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians. – Margaret Cho

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The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. – Simone de Beauvoir

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America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children. – George W. Bush

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[W]omen are meant to be loved, not to be understood. – Oscar Wilde, “The Sphinx without a Secret,” 1891

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