When there's a war, people get married. — Quoted

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“When there's a war, people get married.”

Doris Lessing · War

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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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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

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