她最著名的作品還要數她的突破性小說《金色筆記本》(The Golden Notebook)，這是一部鬆散的自傳小說，在結構上富於創新色彩，亦是她最著名的作品。這部小說於1962年出版，因其對女性內心世界的直率探索，在當時顯得極為大膽，書中的女人們不受婚姻束縛，不管是否需要撫養子女，都按自己的選擇去追求事業與性生活。這本書公然描寫月經和性高潮等題材，以及感情崩潰的心理機制。
她在哈珀·科林斯的編輯尼古拉斯·佩爾森(Nicholas Pearson)周日說：「《金色筆記本》堪稱整整一代人的指引。」
從非洲殖民地到現代化的倫敦，萊辛以作家的眼光審視着男人與女人之間的關係，乃至社會不平等現象與種族隔閡。身為女人，她在職業、政治和性愛方面都追求自己的利益與慾望。為了心目中的自由生活，她拋棄了自己兩個年幼的孩子。
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A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1929). “This essay examines the question of whether a woman is capable of producing work on par with Shakespeare. Woolf asserts that ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'”The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (1949). “A major work of feminist philosophy, the book is a survey of the treatment of women throughout history.”The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963). “Friedan examines what she calls ‘the problem that has no name’ – the general sense of malaise among women in the 1950s and 1960s.”Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig (1969). “An imagining of an actual war of the sexes in which women warriors are equipped with knives and guns.”The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970). “Greer makes the argument that women have been cut off from their sexuality through (a male conceived) consumer society-produced notion of the ‘normal’ woman.”Sexual Politics by Kate Millett (1970). “Based on her PhD dissertation, Millett’s book discusses the role patriarchy (in the political sense) plays in sexual relations. To make her argument, she (unfavorably) explores the work of D.H Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Sigmund Freud, among others.”Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (1984). “In this collection of essays and speeches, Lorde addresses sexism, racism, black lesbians, and more.”The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (1990). “Wolf explores “normative standards of beauty” which undermine women politically and psychologically and are propagated by the fashion, beauty, and advertising industries.”Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (1990). “Influential in feminist and queer theory, this book introduces the concept of ‘gender performativity’ which essentially means, your behavior creates your gender.”Feminism is for everybody by bell hooks (2000). “Hooks focuses on the intersection of gender, race, and the sociopolitical.”