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Doris Lessing Quotes

English - Writer | October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

People World Revolution Stand Seen

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Women Men Conservative Adventurous

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Women You Say Escape First Years

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

Me Will Dead Off Worrying About

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Feeling False Because Sentimentality

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Back Hospital Got Prize Soon Nobel

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Learning Time People Literature Now

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Myself School Reading Go Knew Much

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

Society Dependent Our Some Collapse

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Me Anything Would Who Knew Bore

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

People Color Political Bar Communist

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.

Work Simple Imagination Me Strong

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