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Quotes by Doris Lessing
- I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- 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.
- I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
- I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
- I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
- 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.
- I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
- I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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