The Lovely Lentilla.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, ‘Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more.’ Do they really want people to make oversimplified statements about men and women? In fact, they do. I’ve come with great regret to this conclusion.

—Doris Lessing,

Blindness, errors, betrayals, illness, wounds, weariness, witherings, tarnishings; there is no natural death for love.

This is the year of unravelling.