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
men emotional thinking
...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.
men thinking age
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
sleep fighting thinking
He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety.
funny writing thinking
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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.
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.
kids thinking parent
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.
thinking people mind
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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.
thinking talent married
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
character thinking feminist
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
cutting thinking people
A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?
thinking suits sometimes
Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.