“Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.”

— Doris Lessing, book The Golden Notebook

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British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013

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