Discipline Quote by Doris Lessing

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired…

— Toni Morrison

“Her harmony came not through the complete absence of chaos, but in the realization that she was resilient enough to come back stronger from…

— Becca Lee

“But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what…

— Edith Wharton

“All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that…

— F. Sionil José

“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great…

— Susan Power

“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker…

— Margaret Mahy

“...each moment of being herself, she knew, was a strengthening, an adapting, of who she was; and she didn’t want to be who she…

— Tao Lin

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much…

— Gillian Anderson

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination…

— Margaret Mitchell