“I so want to give him my notebook – I want to be a real person – he should read my book – I work for him, I cook for him, I’m Doris – Doris isn’t just some piece of dirt. I don’t want to be innocent, I want to be the real Doris here and not that silly civilized product of the Green Moss’s imagination.”

“I so want to give him my notebook – I want to be a real person – he should read my book – I work for him, I cook for him, I’m Doris – Doris isn’t just some piece of dirt. I don’t want to be innocent, I want to be the real Doris here and not that silly civilized product of the Green Moss’s imagination.”

— Irmgard Keun