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I haven't got the energy to write now.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

Doris Lessing