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All my friends mothers were appalling women. - Doris Lessing

All my friends mothers were appalling women. – Doris Lessing

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. – Doris Lessing

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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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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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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. – Simone de Beauvoir

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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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