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

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Success
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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 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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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. – Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about. – Catherine Deneuve

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Women

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. – George Balanchine

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Lets stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime. – Carrie P. Meek

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Art has to move you and design does not, unless its a good design for a bus. – David Hockney

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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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I cant change overnight into a serious literary author. You cant compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. – John Grisham

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I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health. – Elizabeth Hurley

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