"None of you [men] ask for anything -……" — Doris Lessing

"None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it."

— 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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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but… — Tom Baker
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. — Wendell Berry
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until… — Sara Blakely
When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a… — Albert Brooks
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. — Robert Capa
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. — Henry Cavill
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on… — Tom Clancy
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. — John Cleese
The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is… — Pema Chodron

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