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Thinking Quotes by Doris Lessing
- Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams…
- 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 tough on the…
- If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
- I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
- Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
- The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in…
- I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.
- Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they…
- People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
- 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 do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
- 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 before…
- I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write…
- A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of…
- A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers…
- Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we…
- A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is…
- He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so…
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