Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“This is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not… — 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
“But all the pressures go the other way, towards learning only what is immediately useful, what is functional. More and more the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“They have not yet evolved into an understanding of their individual selves as merely parts of a whole, first of all humanity,… — 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
