The British author of 'The Golden Notebook' rejected feminist
label.   During the 1970s, at the height of the feminist
movement, Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook became
required reading for women's studies students.  But despite
writing one of the great feminist bibles, Lessing, who died
Sunday in London at age 94, rejected the "feminist" label for
herself.  The Swedish Academy had a different view when it
awarded Lessing the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Then 87,
she was the oldest writer to win the prize.  "The burgeoning
feminist movement saw (The Golden Notebook) as a pioneering
work, and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the
20th-century view of the male-female relationship," the academy
said.  The academy also praised Lessing's "skepticism, fire and
visionary power."  MORE: Recommended reading  That skepticism
and fiery personality were on full display when reporters
gathered outside the British writer's home to tell her she had
won the prize worth $1.5 million. She replied