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Doris Lessing, who made me think in uncomfortably explicit ways about girls and freedom,
Claire Dederer • Love and Trouble
“She cackled again as she walked on. Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often are.” Diana Wynne Jones in Howl’s Moving Castle
‘Lyds,’ my mum said when I was leaving. She looked out of place in her new room, which was decorated with someone in their eighties or nineties in mind. Mum has for the last couple of centuries looked like she is in her early forties. She still has black hair, just with some streaks of grey here and there. Her eyes are still bright.