“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Children should be taught about history not as is usually the case now, that this is the record of long past events,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Anna directed the silent, compassionate thought towards her daughter: Well my poor girl, you’d better get used to it early, because you’re… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we… — 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
Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal “disturbed” child, not an alien.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“When she was older, after ten or so, she could tell she was being useful, but as a small child she was… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Education means only this- that the lively alert fearless curiosity of children must be fed, must be kept alive. That is education.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read. — 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
“Michael takes me from behind, half asleep, fierce and close. He is taking me impersonally, and so I do not respond as… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“All those years were now seeming like a betrayal of what she really was. While her body, her needs, her emotions–all of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“As in the political sphere, the child is taught that he is free, a democrat, with a free will and a free… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
