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The great secret that all old...

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 352 quotes

It is the mark of great peopl...

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I wanted to write about my mo...

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 352 quotes

For the last third of life th...

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Our society is dependent on so...

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

You cannot escape the fact tha...

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 352 quotes

There's an unconscious bias in...

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

What the feminists want of me ...

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 352 quotes

When you're young you think th...

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 352 quotes

It's lovely to have money to g...

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

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I do not think that marriage i...

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

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

What society doesn't realize i...

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.

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There was a time when young pe...

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

What really fascinates me is t...

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.

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September 11 was terrible but,...

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 352 quotes

I hate Iran. I hate the Irania...

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I don't think that the feminis...

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

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I think a lot of romanticizing...

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

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Men are restless, adventurous....

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I wanted to highlight that who...

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

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