Author: Doris Lessing

Quotes

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

- Doris Lessing

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

- Doris Lessing

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

- Doris Lessing

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

- Doris Lessing

What is a hero without love for mankind.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

- Doris Lessing

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

- Doris Lessing

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

- Doris Lessing

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

- Doris Lessing

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