Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CHwas a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 October 1919
running thinking long
The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.
thinking san-francisco needs
I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.
months october unendurable
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?
two feminism machines
The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
differences tolerate uniqueness
We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.
cat mean kitten
Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.
intelligence tears
Intelligence forbids tears.
inspiration writing thinking
I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
men incredibles nonsense
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.
men chance
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
thought-provoking youth provoking
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
daughter two towns
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
red married servant
You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
believe may duration
It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.