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It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

Doris Lessing
Stupid, Fighting, Intelligent
"Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2001.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing
Truth, Stupid, Fighting
Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

Doris Lessing
Fighting, Female Writers, Needs
"Killing Her Softly" by Joseph O'Neil, www.theatlantic.com. September 2010.

He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety.

Doris Lessing
Sleep, Fighting, Thinking
Doris May Lessing (1981). “The Golden Notebook”, Bantam

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