There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
Doris LessingAfter a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.
Doris LessingI hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
Doris Lessing