What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Doris LessingAfrica gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
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 Lessing