Look at this picture of this 87-year-old woman. What are your first thoughts? What would you assume about her?
Her name is Doris Lessing, and she just won a Nobel Prize in Literature.
The countries that she was born in and grew up in no longer exist.
When she was 15, she ran away from home.
She taught herself through reading.
She's a feminist with outspoken political views; so much so that countries in Africa actually declared her a "prohibited alien" in 1956.
Amazing, isn't she?
Picture from the New York Times-- the article is here.
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