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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite wh

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says. – Doris Lessing

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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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