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    Doris Lessing

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    I am your original autodidact. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #i #i am #original #your

    We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #entered #into #like #needed #our

    I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #had #how #i #i do #never

    I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #happier #i #i do #marriage #married

    I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #cause #down #emerge #ever #experiences

    I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #i #i am #optimism #pessimism #story

    I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #done #feminist #i #movement #much

    I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #evil #government #hate #i #iran

    I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #cape #daughter #grandson #great #i

    I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #am #being #described #had #having






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    Doris Lessing Society
    The Doris Lessing Society is dedicated to supporting the scholarly study of Lessing’s work. Alfred Tayler and his wife moved to Kermanshah Iran in order to take up a job as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia and it was there that Doris was born in 1919.

    Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British novelist poet playwright librettist biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950) the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69) The Golden Notebook (1962) The Good Terrorist (1985) and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

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