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DORIS LESSING Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
DORIS LESSING For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a w...
DORIS LESSING Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits ...
DORIS LESSING Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people...
DORIS LESSING Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...
DORIS LESSING I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ...
DORIS PINTER The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing...
DORIS PAYNE It's not the fun it used to be. I'm sure I won't be there next year.
DORIS NORTHAM I told everybody all year long that we've got a good team. To me, they just seem so aggressive.
DORIS NORTHAM When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta...
DORIS NORTHAM It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing i...
DORIS MEISSNER That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
DORIS MEISSNER found the family functioning very well as a family.
DORIS MEISSNER They need more space and they need more privacy.
DORIS MEISSNER held in virtual slavery.
DORIS MEISSNER The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviousl...
DORIS MEISSNER have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.
DORIS MEISSNER The longer we do it, the bigger it grows.
DORIS MARSHALL Our aids are very committed to serving their customers. Money may be a concern but they continue to ...
DORIS MARSHALL Our budget is really tight but we will continue to explore (increasing reimbursement), but I don't k...
DORIS MARSHALL I live in a neighborhood, but all the houses are different. There are a lot of different sizes and d...
DORIS LEADBETTER I think Great Falls is an anomaly because there are so many different types of houses. It's not like...
DORIS LEADBETTER