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“ There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ”

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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

~ Doris Lessing

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do, or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

~ Doris Lessing

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

~ Doris Lessing

Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

~ Doris Lessing