Doris Lessing, obituary podcast -- The Guardian -

Cracking up --the late Doris Lessing on her latest book --

"Women are basically conservative, I don't mean every woman is, I mean a general trend.  .  .  .  I don't know why people get so upset.  First, they get upset by words like 'cleft' or 'squirts'"  .  .  .

In her last novel, she described a world inhabited by only women, whom she called Clefts, until men "a younger species"called Squirts, came along.

I found this so very amusing -- I wish she could have lived forever.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/nov/18/doris-lessing-dies-obituary-audio-interviews-podcast