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
color people political
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
begging-you stealing lending
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
funny mind small-things
Small things amuse small minds.
world kind feels
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
thinking lakes lovely
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
war worry let-me
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
thinking talent married
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
reading school taught
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
reading
I never stopped reading.
work age lasts
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
character thinking feminist
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
our-society collapse precarious
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
black-and-white simple black-white
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
dream parent use
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.