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  • She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

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    Girl   Self   Years  
    Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.494, Vintage

  • The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

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    Years  
    The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

  • And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

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    "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.
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Doris Lessing

  • Born: October 22, 1919
  • Died: November 17, 2013
  • Occupation: Novelist
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