In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris LessingThere are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own lives, but mostly feminism has had an impact among privileged women in the advanced Western countries. For the most part, it hasn't begun to touch the lives of poor and working women in the Third World, and that distresses me.
Doris LessingIt is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing