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

Doris Lessing · Learning

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Doris Lessing

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.

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Doris Lessing

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

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Doris Lessing

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Learning

Doris Lessing

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

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