Doris Lessing
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“You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can’t say I do like it very much.” -Doris Lessing
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“I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.” -Doris Lessing
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“It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.” -Doris Lessing
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“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.” -Doris Lessing
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“I think kids ought to travel. I think it’s very good to carry kids around. It’s good for them. Of course it’s tough on the parents.” -Doris Lessing
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“I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like success.’” -Doris Lessing
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“What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.” -Doris Lessing
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“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.” -Doris Lessing
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“What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.” -Doris Lessing
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“What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.” -Doris Lessing
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“When you’re young you think that you’re going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.” -Doris Lessing
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“It’s lovely to have money to give away – that’s the bonus of winning the Nobel.” -Doris Lessing
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“I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier unmarried than married.” -Doris Lessing
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“What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.” -Doris Lessing
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“What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula.” -Doris Lessing
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“September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible.” -Doris Lessing
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“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.” -Doris Lessing
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“I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It’s a cruel and evil government.” -Doris Lessing
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“Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.” -Doris Lessing
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“We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.” -Doris Lessing
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“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.” -Doris Lessing
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“There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.” -Doris Lessing
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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. – Doris Lessing
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing
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