Doris Lessing: "[The Golden Notebook] bukan sangkakala untuk Pembebasa...

"[The Golden Notebook] bukan sangkakala untuk Pembebasan Wanita. Ini menggambarkan banyak emosi wanita agresi, permusuhan, kebencian. Itu dimasukkan ke dalam cetakan. Rupanya apa yang dipikirkan, dirasakan, dialami, banyak perempuan datang sebagai kejutan besar. Seketika banyak senjata kuno dilepaskan, yang utama, seperti biasa, dengan tema "Dia tidak feminin", "Dia pembenci pria"."

--- Doris Lessing

Versi Bahasa Inggris

[The Golden Notebook] was not a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing, came as a great surprise. Instantly a lot of very ancient weapons were unleashed, the main ones, as usual, being on the theme of "She is unfeminine", "She is a man-hater".