“Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Note
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Note
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How my heart speaks 
Seems I can’t criticise men or women!!
Aw.leave her alone… ..
She means real thinking … but that is probably rare in either sex.Like,she was a Communist until the early fifties when she realised the horrors of Stalinism but many others refused to look at the evidence
I suppose it had become a religion for them… and all that entails
Well, I don’t think we have to think all the time. And there are men too who choose not to think… sometimes using the mechanism of meditation, and sometimes distracting their minds by following a football game while drinking large quantities of beer. Now don’t just criticize women, Doris.
Aw.leave her alone… ..
She means real thinking … but that is probably rare in either sex.Like,she was a Communist until the early fifties when she realised the horrors of Stalinism but many others refused to look at the evidence
I suppose it had become a religion for them… and all that entails