Doris Lessing Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome!
There is absolutely nothing like love for showing how many different people can live inside one skin.
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
The worst of a woman is that she expects you to make love to her, or to pretend to make love to her. - BARON CORVO
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to ...
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.
I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.
A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?
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.
Now, I am not Anna, I have no will, I can't move out of a situation once it has started, I just go along with it.
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.
People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world."
"-In Pursuit of Silence
"-In Pursuit of Silence
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
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.
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty ... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
I watched his face put on that mask of bluff, goodnatured tolerance which is the mask of corruption in this particular time (for
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.