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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she h

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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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing

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I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – Doris Lessing

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I think kids ought to travel. I think its very good to carry kids around. Its good for them. Of course its tough on the parents. – Doris Lessing

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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last nights Democratic debate. – Jay Leno

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The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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