"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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"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.“
-Doris Lessing
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