Doris Lessing Quotes
- Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't…
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
- Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
- Small things amuse small minds.
- In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
- When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
- I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
- I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
- I never stopped reading.
- What is a hero without love for mankind.
- For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
- Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
- Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
- We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.