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
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.
mother strokes died
My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
mother brother frustrated
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
girl ideas empires
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
people feminist world
What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.