There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“A few minutes later she was concentrating on her novel, which was half-finished. The theme of this book was a suicide. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The fight with my various forms of dissatisfaction tires me; but I know this is not a personal fight. When I talk… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“For suddenly it had changed into that gear when time is slower - as when, falling off a ladder, one has time… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The 1960s was probably the first time in history that young people were recognized as a big group of consumers and as… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She had known it all the time: I'm so enormously exhausted, so utterly, basically tired, and in fibre of myself, that to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing… — 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
...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman… — 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
