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Doris Lessing 1919 - 2013 On men and women: " Men are restless, adventurous . Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says. Of course men and women are different. 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." On her relationship with her mother: " We hated each other … We were quarrelling right from the start. She wouldn't have chosen me as a daughter. I was landed on her. I must have driven her mad. She thought everything I did was to annoy her. She had an incredible capacity for self-delusion." On marriage: "Not one of my talents." On motherhood: " There is no boredom like that of an intelligent woman who spends all day with a very small child." On leaving her two children in Africa when she emigrated to England in 1949: " While it was a terrible thing to do , it was right to do it." On communism: &