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

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

Doris Lessing · Women

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Doris Lessing

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.

Women

Doris Lessing

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Trust

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.

Society

Doris Lessing

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, ' reducing it to a simple formula.

Imagination