Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Idealism, Communism, Powerful Men, Feminism and Children

This is a clip from an interview Doris Lessing gave to Jennifer Byrne in 2001.
The original transcript is available here: web.archive.org/web/200111190...

[@stacielivinthedream8510]

I love and respect her strength and fight!

[@marianedmond5326]

Doris has articulated what I have felt for a long time. I cannot imagine "isms" and "slogans" as anything more than forms of "shaming" and "division".

[@pch2230]

Yes, exactly.

[@abooaw4588]

Christianism, Judaism,Islamism, Bouddhism , Atheism,Feminism, Communism ,Capitalism.....The suffix "ism" is suspect. She is right. It refers to a systematic ideology. Ideals cannot be systematic because they are by definition unreachable. The quest of "ism" is leading people to think in this world of : Us Vs Them.

[@pch2230]

It's very hard to think of anything good that's come from flags.

[@Norkaisa1]

The feminist movement main goal was to distract woman’s from their true divine nature and it did that perfectly.