What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
Doris LessingMother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.
Doris LessingThe youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Doris Lessing