I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
- 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.
- I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
- 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.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- 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.
- When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Best Quotes
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- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
- I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.
- I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
- A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
- When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
- Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.