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Very Quotes by Doris Lessing
- 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…
- It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
- 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…
- We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.
- Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
- I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
- I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
- My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my…
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That…
- Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which…
- Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
- I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
- I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at…
- When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so reduced,…
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