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“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”

Doris Lessing · Truth

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Doris Lessing

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Society

Doris Lessing

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Learning

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Women