Doris Lessing Quotes
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Doris Lessing
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Queen Latifah
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
Garth Brooks
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Kate Burton
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.
Jerome Powell
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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
John Buchanan Robinson
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I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?
Patrick Ness
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Among their blameworthy excesses, pride of place must go to enclosing innocent women within convent walls under apparently holy (but really wicked) pretexts. Men dare to endanger free will, bestowed on men and women alike by Divine Majesty; they force women to dwell in life-long prisons, although guilty of no fault other than being born the weaker sex.
Arcangela Tarabotti
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You know how only you can insult your own family? That's how I feel about Florida.
Danielle Schneider
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Doris Lessing
