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I wanted to write about my mot...

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

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 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

All my friends' mothers were a...

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Sometimes I think what I write...

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

We do not know which of our si...

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

There is a whole generation of...

There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

The current publishing scene i...

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

The automatic reaction of prac...

The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Once I read autobiography as w...

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

It isn't only the terror every...

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Ideally, what should be said t...

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.'

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Don't read a book out of its r...

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

But there is no doubt that to ...

But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

An interim report - that is wh...

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I'm going to make the obvious ...

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Free women,' said Anna, wryly...

Free women,' said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: 'They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

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And then, not expecting it, yo...

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about, unnoticed and invisible.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

One certainty we all accept is...

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

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