We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Harriet’s parents had taken it for granted that family life was the basis for a happy one.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into… — 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 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
“In the end, the cats were rounded up and put into a room. My father went into the room with his First… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents. — 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
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both… — 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
![“[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?” quote by Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fbb/doris-lessing-501_age_on-her-mother-i-was-in-nervous-flight-fr_2670554.jpg)
