I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement. — Quoted

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“I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.”

Doris Lessing · Women

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Doris Lessing

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

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Doris Lessing

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

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Doris Lessing

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Truth

Doris Lessing

My father was in the First World War.

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