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“There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.”

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Doris Lessing

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

Women

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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Age

Doris Lessing

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

Learning