Cowards Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image ““Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.”” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cowards Cowards Semi Feminism Semi Slaves Slaves Long Women Cowards Women-s-strength
“I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
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… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Maybe being brave was not highly desireable in women. Normal women would have fled, like Pansy.” — Maureen Doyle McQuerry Copy Share Image
“She that will not fight is a coward. She that cannot fight is weak. She that dares not fight is a slave.” — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.” — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell them that the reason they get hounded by their women is because they truly care about the world we live… — Ad Hudler Copy Share Image
“ Coward. She was not! No woman who would refuse the fate her family intended for her and strike off on her own, determined… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There will always be people who will first wait for somebody's comment and then attack them. I'll say they are just cowards. They have… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Artists who say they do not want to mix up in politics are cowards who are not willing to come to terms with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
“Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
“People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
