Women Quotes by Doris Lessing

11 Women quotes by Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing’s voice carries depth even in a short set. These eleven lines explore women’s inner worlds with the thoughtful nuance that defines her broader work, offering a compact yet resonant read.

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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history

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Women are slaves to their beauty.

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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

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Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say…

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All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up…

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There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and…

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Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up…

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Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to…

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look…

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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…

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“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot…

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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

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I haven't got the energy to write now.

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have…

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“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.”

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What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at…

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The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even…

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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

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