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 Copy Share Image
“For she is remembering Paul’s saying: There is no such thing as a frigid woman, there are only incompetent men.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Meantime, other “feminist bibles”had appeared, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex being the best. Which brings me to something no one believes.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
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… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share
What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is. — Doris Lessing Copy Share
