English - Writer | October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
Doris Lessing
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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
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All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.
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Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
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I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
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My father was in the First World War.
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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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I have ideas that I will probably never write now.
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It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
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The human race has been telling stories since it began.
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