Doris Lessing's Quotes

Doris Lessing's Quotes 32

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years whether...

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of...

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Men are restless adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current...

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been...

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When there's a war people get married.

My father was in the First World War.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of...

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling...

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Trust no friend without faults and love a woman but no angel.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around....

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that...

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are...

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms and they are very...

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it...

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of...

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier...

What society doesn't realize is that in the past ordinary people respected...

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now...

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is...

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood...

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