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Doris Lessing

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Keluarga

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.

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Cinta

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

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Pendidikan

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.

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Nasihat

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

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Keluarga

My father was in the First World War.

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Perjuangan

When there's a war, people get married.

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Keluarga

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

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Cinta

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

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Kehidupan

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

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Kehidupan

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

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Persahabatan

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

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Kehidupan

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.

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Cinta

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”

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