Doris Lessing

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.

All my friends’ mothers were appalling women.

I don’t think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

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

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says.