"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."
-Doris Lessing
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"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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"All my friends' mothers were appalling women."
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"I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women."
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"Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says."
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"I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement."
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"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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