I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

我想写关于我母亲的故事，如果她没有被第一次世界大战搞砸的话，她应该是这样的。

-- Doris Lessing 多丽丝·莱辛