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Q18.Consider the following sentences from the Nobel Lecture of the writer Doris Lessing: 'That poor girl trudging through the dust dreaming of an education for her children, do we think that we are better than she is – we, stuffed full of food, our cupboards full of clothes, stifling in our superfluities? I think it is that girl, and the women who were talking about books and an education when they had not eaten for three days, that may yet define us.' Which of the option(s) is/are implied by the quote?