Quote by Doris Lessing
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite wh

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

Other quotes by Doris Lessing

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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Professionalism
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you dont change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

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Age
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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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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I dont think any one will deny us. – Louisa May Alcott

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I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important. – Madeleine Albright

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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. – Ovid

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