A quote a day for Women's History Month: 16th March

Women have ever been useful to ambitious young men. Why not? It is part of the social mechanisms. But until we worked it out... women then in the news were always being puzzled by how we were being embraced in theatre foyers and public places by young men we scarcely knew, whose attentiveness impressed the onlookers, if not us.

Doris Lessing, Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of my autobiography, 1949-1962 (1997)

There's a dedicated Doris Lessing site and there's a brief biographical overview here. She even has a MySpace page but this doesn't appear to being kept updated and it's not something she maintains herself. Interview with her on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.