Doris Lessing Quotes
The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country. … I was really astounded that some people were shocked.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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It's important to win with style.
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
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Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself.
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The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country. … I was really astounded that some people were shocked.
