What They [critics Of Lessing's

All My Friends' Mothers Were Appalling Women.

Her Own Contempt For Any Forms Of Pressure Society Might Put On Her Was So Profound And Instinctive That She As Instinctively Despised Anyone Who Paid Tribute To Them.

Sleep Is Harder To Reach And Thinner, And Sleeping Is No Longer The Drop Into The Black Pit All Oblivion Until The Alarm Clock, No, Sleep Is Thin And Fitful And Full Of Memories And Reminders And The Dark Is Never Dark Enough.

I'll Be Pleased When I'm Dead. That Will Let Me Off Worrying About All These Wars.

Writers, And Particularly Female Writers, Have To Fight For The Conditions They Need To Work.