I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
- It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- When there's a war, people get married.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- 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.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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