Doris Lessing | trust
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Doris Lessing | travel
I think kids ought to travel. I think it’s very good to carry kids around. It’s good for them. Of course it’s tough on the parents.
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Doris Lessing | success
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like success.’
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Doris Lessing | society
What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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Doris Lessing | society
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.
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Doris Lessing | society
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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Doris Lessing | respect
What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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Doris Lessing | religion
What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
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Doris Lessing | peace
When you’re young you think that you’re going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
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