"I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty…" — Doris Lessing

"I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring."

— Doris Lessing

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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing has 201 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to…
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat…
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I…
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist:…
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was…

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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy… — Sebastian Bach
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but… — Tom Baker
I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you… — Christian Bale
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on… — Alan Ball
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything… — J. G. Ballard
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring. — Javier Bardem
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. — Dave Barry

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