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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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.
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