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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #feminist #i #never

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dead #i #me #off #pleased

I'm just a story teller. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#just #story #teller

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#fame #i #posthumous #sits #those

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anguish #everybody #feels #going #i

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#delighted #europe #every #i #lot

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#get #hard #i #life #my life

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cat #diagram #embodied #fish #given