“For no one knows what lies under the sands of the world's great deserts. No one knows how many times poor Earth… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“For these creatures(humans) are for the most part malevolent and murderous by nature, able to tolerate others only insofar as they resemble… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The human being is given by Nature little more energy than what is needed to maintain the species; to reproduce and to… — 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
“THE LILIES This morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed… — 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
