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I am your original autodidact.

~Doris Lessing

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

~Doris Lessing

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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

~Doris Lessing

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I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

~Doris Lessing

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I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

~Doris Lessing

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

~Doris Lessing

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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

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I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

~Doris Lessing

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When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

~Doris Lessing

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I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

~Doris Lessing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 22nd, 1919

Died: November 17th, 2013

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